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c3d

A library for manipulating C3D binary files

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py-c3d

This is a small library for reading and writing C3D binary files. C3D files are a standard format for recording 3-dimensional time sequence data, especially data recorded by a 3D motion tracking apparatus.

Installing

Install with pip::

pip install c3d

Or if you'd like to use the bleeding-edge version, just clone the github repository and build and install using the normal Python setup process::

pip install git+https://github.com/EmbodiedCognition/py-c3d

Usage

Tools


This package includes a script for converting C3D motion data to CSV format
(``c3d2csv``) and an OpenGL-based visualization tool for observing the motion
described by a C3D file (``c3d-viewer``).

Note for the viewer you need to install `pyglet`.
This can be done by installing the gui extra of py-c3d::

    pip install "c3d[gui]"

Library

To use the C3D library, just import the package and create a Reader or Writer depending on your intended usage

.. code-block:: python

import c3d

with open('data.c3d', 'rb') as handle:
    reader = c3d.Reader(handle)
    for i, (points, analog) in enumerate(reader.read_frames()):
        print('Frame {}: {}'.format(i, points.round(2)))

You can also get and set metadata fields using the library; see the package documentation_ for more details.

.. _package documentation: http://c3d.readthedocs.org

Developer Install


To work on `c3d`, first install `poetry <https://python-poetry.org>`_ and then run::

    git clone https://github.com/EmbodiedCognition/py-c3d
    cd py-c3d
    poetry install

This will create a new virtual environment with all the required dependency and `c3d` in develop mode.

Tests
~~~~~

To run tests available in the test folder, following command can be run from the root of the package directory::

    python -m unittest discover .

Test scripts will automatically download test files from `c3d.org`_.

.. _c3d.org: https://www.c3d.org/sampledata.html

Caveats
-------

This library is minimally effective, in the sense that the only motion tracking
system I have access to (for testing) is a Phasespace system. If you try out the
library and find that it doesn't work with your motion tracking system, let me
know. Pull requests are also welcome!

Also, if you're looking for more functionality than just reading and writing C3D
files, there are a lot of better toolkits out there that support a lot more file
formats and provide more functionality, perhaps at the cost of increased
complexity. The `biomechanical toolkit`_ is a good package for analyzing motion
data.

.. _biomechanical toolkit: http://code.google.com/p/b-tk/

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