Important notice

This is an alpha version and is not meant for use by external parties.

Documentation

Welcome to the tulips documentation! The tulips python package creates visualizations of stars based on output from the MESA stellar evolution code. TULIPS represents stars as circles with varying size and color. Click the links below to learn more about TULIPS through examples, tutorials, and detailed documentation.

Installation

Getting Started

Tulips diagrams

Perceived color diagram

Energy and mixing diagram

Property profile diagram

Chemical profile diagram

Combining diagrams

Additional options

Timestep options

Customize options

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page

Contributing

If you wish to submit a new feature or bug fix please send a pull request.

Acknowledgments

tulips makes use of the open-source python modules mesaPlot (Farmer, 2019), matplotlib (Hunter, 2007), numpy (van der Walt et al., 2011), Colorpy (Mark Kness), astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al., 2013, 2018), CMasher (van der Velden, 2020), and ipython/jupyter (Perez and Granger, 2007). Logo design: A. Faber. Documentation: I. de Langen.