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Class Datafield

Class Datafield holds experimental or simulated scattering data.

Most important, the function simulation.simulate() returns an object of class Datafield.

A Datafield object contains

  • an array with radiation intensities,
  • optionally, an array with error estimates,
  • coordinate axes, and
  • optionally, a title.

Modify

To set the title of Datafield df:

df.setTitle("text")

This is particularly useful for disambiguating datafields that are put together in a list. Functions make_plot and plot_multicurve from module ba_plot use datafield titles to generate a legend.

Export

For detailed reference, see Export.

To save a Datafield df in a file:

ba.IOFactory.writeDatafield(df, file_name)

where file_name must have an extension .(txt|int|tif), and may have a second extension .(gz|bz2).

To extract NumPy arrays from a Datafield df:

df.xCenters()  # centers of x bins
df.dataArray() # intensities
df.errors()    # error estimates thereof

Plot

For detailed reference, see Plotting.

To plot a Datafield df:

from bornagain import ba_plot as bp
bp.plot_simulation_result(df)
bp.plt.show()

Analyze

To determine pekas in a 2d Datafield, use