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cooltools

Practical Tools for Scientific Computations and Visualizations

v2.18 · Jul 23, 2025 · GPL-3

Description

Collection of routines for efficient scientific computations in physics and astrophysics. These routines include utility functions, numerical computation tools, as well as visualisation tools. They can be used, for example, for generating random numbers from spherical and custom distributions, information and entropy analysis, special Fourier transforms, two-point correlation estimation (e.g. as in Landy & Szalay (1993) <doi:10.1086/172900>), binning & gridding of point sets, 2D interpolation, Monte Carlo integration, vector arithmetic and coordinate transformations. Also included is a non-exhaustive list of important constants and cosmological conversion functions. The graphics routines can be used to produce and export publication-ready scientific plots and movies, e.g. as used in Obreschkow et al. (2020, MNRAS Vol 493, Issue 3, Pages 4551–4569). These routines include special color scales, projection functions, and bitmap handling routines.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies plotrix celestial data.table pracma png jpeg MASS raster sp cubature bit64 float randtoolbox Rcpp FNN +1 more dependencies cooltools

Version History

8 tracked
new 2.18 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.18 ← 2.4 diff Jul 23, 2025
updated 2.4 ← 2.1.27 diff Jul 18, 2024
updated 2.1.27 ← 2.0 diff Jul 18, 2023
updated 2.0 ← 1.8 diff Oct 4, 2022
updated 1.8 ← 1.7 diff Aug 18, 2022
updated 1.7 ← 1.6 diff Mar 2, 2022
new 1.6 Feb 6, 2022