openpixi/openpixi — Issue #5: Save and load simulation environment
Author: aipp
Created: 2012-02-29 17:32:41+00:00
State: open

The global settings of a simulation, like number of particles, time step size, settings like global magnetic field, gravity, drag, etc. should be stored in a user-friendly format that users can easily edit.

Either an XML format, or an INI style format could be used.

This file should be small, and therefore NOT contain the positions and velocities of thousands of particles, but rather (for example) the information that 1000 particles shall be initialized with random key 1234.

These settings should also help to prepare command-line runs of a given simulation.