open-atmos-jupyter-utils

Ever wondered how come Jupyter defaults to raster inline graphics format (and not svg), does not offer a "save as pdf/svg" button below every plot and does not offer a way to include animated graphics that render on GitHub? Our feelings exactly! Here are our solutions: just replace pyplot.show() with show_plot() and use show_anim() for animations.

The open-atmos-jupyter-utils package has been developed for and used in numerous Jupyter notebooks in PySDM, PyMPDATA and PyPartMC projects.

Project resources

Project overview video (FOSDEM lightning talk)

Agnieszka Żaba presenting a lightning talk on open-atmos-jupyter-utils at FOSDEM 2025

🎓 Student project opportunities

Engineer a pytest plugin based on the notebook_vars utility function
Extend support to other plot-generating packages beyond matplotlib
Develop an automated testing solution validating the generated svg/pdf/gif files (as well as correctness of pdfs generated by nbconvert)

Contributors from our team

Agnieszka Żaba

Ongoing PhD project co-advised with Mirosław Zimnoch (prior: MSc in Mathematics, AGH, 2023, BEng in Applied Mathematics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 2018)

Michał Wroński

Ongoing BEng project (major: Micro- and Nanotechnologies in Biophysics, AGH)

Paweł Magnuszewski

Completed MSc project in 2025 (major: Computer Science & Intelligent Systems, AGH)

Sylwester Arabas

Team lead (PhD, Physics, U. Warsaw, 2013)