README.txt

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*COLLOIDS*
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Description

    Colloids is a C++ library to process both experimental and simulation data of colloidal particles. 
    The main features are

     * particle tracking from confocal microscopy images
     * analysis of local structure and dynamics of particles (from simulations or experiments)


Project Homepage

    The project has a homepage which can be found at https://github.com/MathieuLeocmach/colloids/wiki

Copyright and License

    Copyright 2008,2009 Mathieu Leocmach

    This file is part of Colloids.

    Colloids is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    Colloids is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with Colloids.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


Aknowledge please

    Please cite Colloids and it's author(s) in any scientific publication using this software.

    The code in itself has a DOI number so you can cite it. Bibtex entry could be something like 

@misc{
    Leocmach2015, 
    title={The colloid toolkit}, 
    url={http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.31286}, 
    DOI={10.5281/zenodo.31286},
    author={Mathieu Leocmach}, 
    year={2015}
}

   The multiscale algorithm is described in 

@Article{Leocmach2013,
    author ="Leocmach, Mathieu and Tanaka, Hajime",
    title  ="A novel particle tracking method with individual particle size measurement and its application to ordering in glassy hard sphere colloids",
    journal  ="Soft Matter",
    year  ="2013",
    volume  ="9",
    issue  ="5",
    pages  ="1447-1457",
    publisher  ="The Royal Society of Chemistry",
    doi  ="10.1039/C2SM27107A",
}


Contact
    Mathieu LEOCMACH, Institut Lumière Matière, UMR-CNRS 5306, Lyon, France
    mathieu.leocmach AT polytechnique.org