rodhypix

Standalone reader for Rigaku .rodhypix detector images.

Features

• Read native .rodhypix images without CrysAlisPro
• Access detector and experiment metadata
• Native C++ TY6 backend
• Pure Python fallback

Installation

pip install rodhypix

On Windows, this will install native decompression from wheels without compilation.

Plotting support (only required for example notebooks):

pip install "rodhypix[viz]"

Quick Start

from rodhypix import RODImageReader, get_rod_info, read_rod_image

image = read_rod_image("snapshot.rodhypix")
info = get_rod_info("snapshot.rodhypix")

reader = RODImageReader("snapshot.rodhypix")
print(reader.get_decompression_method())
print(info["exposure_time_sec"])

Public API

• RODImageReader
• read_rod_image
• get_rod_info
• HAS_NATIVE_CPP

Included Material

• rodhypix/rod_image_reader.py: main reader implementation
• rodhypix/ty6_backend_tools.py: backend comparison and benchmark helpers
• scripts/benchmark_ty6_backends.py: CLI benchmark
• examples/01_image_visualization.ipynb: image visualization notebook

Example Data

The extracted example dataset is stored in example_data/exp_11317.zip.