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Links and scripts to download

Madrigal sites

 

Step 1: Download Python, Matlab, and/or IDL Remote APIs

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Go to the OpenMadrigal download page, and download one or more version. Available as *.tar.gz or *zip files. The Matlab and IDL installations assumes you have these commercial products already installed; the python version is open-source and can be installed on any computer.

Matlab installation: The Matlab version is simply *.m files, so they need to be put in a standard Matlab directory.

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To install the python version:

  1. Make sure you have python installed. If not, install it from python.org.

  2. The easiest way to install is: pip install madrigalWeb (you may need to be sudo on unix)
  3. If that doesn't work, To install the remote python madrigal api from from www.openmadrigal.org, and you will need to uncompress the file. Then you will need to run run python setupMadrigalWeb.py install. If you are installing on Windows, you will need to open a command prompt, and then change directory to where you uncompressed the file. From windows the python command may be something like like c:\python25\python.exe setupMadrigalWeb.py install. All the command line scripts (globalIsprint.py, madrigalPColor.py, and madrigalScatter.py) will be put into your PATH and so can be called directly from the command line.

For Matlab or IDL, go to the OpenMadrigal download page, and download one or more version. Available as *.tar.gz or *zip files. The Matlab and IDL installations assumes you have these commercial products already installed.

Matlab installation: The Matlab version is simply *.m files, so they need to be put in a standard Matlab directory.

IDL installation: The IDL version is simply *.pro files, so they need to to put in a standard IDL directory.

 

Step 2: Create and run a globalDownload script

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