Bug#656633: ITP: pyfai -- python library for Fast Azimuthal Integration

[Jerome KIEFFER <jerome.kieffer@esrf.fr>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jerome KIEFFER <jerome.kieffer@esrf.fr>


* Package name    : pyfai
  Version         : 0.3.5
  Upstream Author : Jerome Kieffer <jerome.kieffer@esrf.fr>
* URL             : http://forge.epn-campus.eu/projects/azimuthal
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : python library for Fast Azimuthal Integration

PyFAI is a Python library for azimuthal integration; it allows the conversion
of diffraction images taken with 2D detectors like CCD cameras into X-Ray
powder patterns that can be used by other software like Rietveld refinement
tools (i.e. FullProf), phase analysis or texture analysis.

As PyFAI is a library, its main goal is to be integrated in other tools like
PyMca, LiMa or EDNA. To perform online data analysis, the precise description of the
experimental setup has to be known. This is the reason why PyFAI includes
geometry optimization code working on "powder rings" of reference samples.
Alternatively, PyFAI can also import geometries fitted with other tools like
Fit2D.

PyFAI has been designed to work with any kind of detector with any geometry
(transmission, reflection, off-axis, ...). It uses the Python library FabIO to
read most images taken by diffractometer.