LightPipes on an iPad

[FredvanGoor]

I Have installed and used LightPipes on my brand new iPad Pro 2021! First I installed Pyto (https://pyto.app/) which includes the required packages Matplotlib, Numpy and SciPy. After that I could install LightPipes being a “pure Python” package using the PyPi install feature of Pyto. The new Apple M1 processor is very fast and I successfully tried all the examples of LightPipes. Grid sizes up to 3000 x 3000 are no problem in most cases. Unfortunately the practicum examples don’t work because tkinter is missing. I also tried Pythonista (http://omz-software.com/pythonista/) but with this LightPipes could not be installed because the SciPy package was missing.

The iPad Pro 2021 is a serious step towards an iPad-replacement of the laptop….

In the latest version of LightPipes I have skipped the “pyFFTW not-installed warning” when dealing with an iPad, because pyFFTW cannot be installed in Pyto.