Glassure

An API and GUI program for data analysis of total x-ray diffraction data. It performs background subtraction, Fourier transform and optimization of experimental data.

Maintainer

Clemens Prescher (clemens.prescher@gmail.com)

Requirements

• python 2.7
• PySide/PyQt4
• numpy
• scipy
• pandas
• pyqtgraph (http://www.pyqtgraph.org/)
• lmfit (https://github.com/lmfit/lmfit-py)

It is known to run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Installation

The easiest way for Python Newcomers would be to use the Anaconda or Miniconda 64bit Python 3.5 distribution. Please download it from https://www.continuum.io/downloads and install it.

Then run the following in the commandline (or Anaconda prompt under Windows):

conda config --add channels cprescher
conda install glassure

The graphical user interface for glassure can now be started from by typing

glassure

if you want to make a short cut for the desktop, the glassure executable can be found in the %anaconda_directory%/scripts folder.