About flair

flair is an advanced user interface for FLUKA to facilitate the editing of FLUKA input files, execution of the code and visualization of the output files. It is based entirely on python and Tkinter. Flair provides the following functionality:

1. front-end interface for an easy and almost error free editing as well as validation of the input file during editing;
2. debugging, compiling, running and monitoring of the status during a run;
3. back-end interface for post-processing of the output files and plot generation through an interface to gnuplot or 3D photorealistic images with povray;
4. library of materials and geometrical objects, for easier editing, storing and sharing among other users and projects;
5. python API for manipulating the input files, post processing of the results and interfacing to gnuplot;

The philosophy of flair was to work on an intermediate level of user interface. Not too high, that hides the inner functionality of FLUKA from the user, and not so low that the user is in constant need of the FLUKA manual to verify the options for each card. Flair works directly with the input file of FLUKA and is able to read/write all acceptable FLUKA input formats. In the input editor the user is working directly with the FLUKA cards using a small dialog for each card. The program displayes the card information in an interpreted human readable way. The only exception is that the cards in flair are so called extended cards where each card is not composed only by 6 whats and 1 sdum but rather they contains all related information in one unit (comments preceding the card, continuation cards, titles etc).

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Installation, use, reproduction, display of the software ("flair"), in source and binary forms, are permitted free of charge on a non-exclusive basis for internal scientific, non-commercial and non-weapon-related use by non-profit organizations only.

For commercial use of the software, please contact the main author Vasilis.Vlachoudis@cern.ch for further information.

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