Using local topography files instead of through published containers

[sitangshugk95]

Are there any example files that show how to use local topography files (AFM scans/XYZ data/MATLAb files) instead of read_published_container?

[pastewka]

The container is a collection (list) of measurements, if you want to read individual files you can just do that with read_topography, i.e. from SurfaceTopography import read_topography. The reader autodetects the format if supported. You should be able to directly read the data file that you AFM produces.

[pastewka]

Note that if you read MATLAB files, you need to provide some additional information to the reader, in particular the size of the measurement and the unit. You can do this via read_topography('myfile.mat', physical_sizes=(1, 2), unit='mm') (of course adjust the numbers appropriately).

[pastewka]

There is limited documentation here:

https://contactengineering.github.io/SurfaceTopography/usage.html

https://contactengineering.github.io/SurfaceTopography/source/SurfaceTopography.IO.html#SurfaceTopography.IO.read_topography