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DOI 10.5286/stfctr.2025006
Persistent URL http://purl.org/net/epubs/work/62589774
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Title SPICE, Stack Plot Interactive Control Environment: a standalone Python application for producing easily customised stack plots and brightness maps from powder diffraction data.
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Abstract The assembly of powder diffraction data (or any line plots) collected as a function of some environmental variable, such as pressure, temperature, or even time, into an array that allows shifts to be appreciated by eye is an important aspect of crystallographic data analysis, particularly during the data collection phase of an experiment. When data are collected in uneven increments, accurate representation of variable-dependent changes is crucial, and typically difficult, tedious or impossible to achieve with most available applications. The SPICE application (Stack Plot Interactive Control Environment) allows very rapid plotting and formatting of line data into stack plots and brightness maps with vertical spacing and line (or pixel) colour attributes that are a function of the environmental variable increments. The code allows for automatic re-ordering, selective display and scaling of individual datasets and saving of plots at high resolution suitable for publication.
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Licence Information: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Language English (EN)
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Report STFC Technical Reports STFC-TR-2025-006. STFC, 2025. STFC-TR-2025-006.pdf 2025