Introduction
Software
Experiment
Data processing
Post-processing and results evaluation
Advanced discussions
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Fabian is designed for the purpose of viewing image file series. In particular such diffraction image files obtained from synchrotron experiments. It was originally written by Henning Osholm Sørensen & Erik Knudsen from the Technical University of Denmark.
The current homepage for Fabian is at https://github.com/FABLE-3DXRD/fabian.
First of all, you will need Linux, either as a separate harddrive (with lots of memory space) or as a virtual machine on your Windows/Apple computer. In case you are not familiar with Linux, ask your administrator for help and maybe do an online crash course to learn basic navigation and so on.
Having Linux is a good start, but not enough. You will also need a couple of other programs. When you click on the Fabian homepage and scroll down, there is a list of all the stuff you need in order to run Fabian properly. Most of the computers, which were working with Linux before, usually have installed most of these software/libraries already. But if you got a brandnew Linux from your IT guys, there is usually only the very basic stuff on it.
Now you have two options:
The benefit of Anaconda is that it contains most of the necessary libraries and you are done with installations within 5 minutes. There are also several other advantages coming with Anaconda (for example the installation assistant for GrainSpotter).
Go to the Fabian homepage and click on the green button “clone or download”. Click on “Download ZIP”. After the download is finished, navigate to the “Downloads” folder and unpack the ZIP folder to a directory of your choice.
Open the Konsole and navigate to the unpacked Fabian directory. There should be a folder called “setup.py”. Type the following to the Konsole:
python setup.py build
If you get an error, there might be some of the additional libraries still missing.
When the installation was successful you should be able to start Fabian by typing
fabian.py
in any folder.
Be aware that the Konsole is now occupied with running Fabian. If you want to get the terminal back, you should start Fabian by typing
fabian.py &
If you forgot the /&/ sign, you can get the hand on the terminal back by typing Crt-Z and then bg in your terminal.
