PowerCurved version 0.1

Copyright 2008 Gregorio Díaz-Marta Mateos

Released under the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version (see copying.txt)

This program 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.

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DESCRIPTION

PowerCurved is a GTK interface written in python for editing power curves of
wind turbines.

Features:

- Simple, plain text format for file storage.
- Support for explicit rated power, cut-in and cut-off speeds.
- Computes annual energy power for given Weibull parameters.
- Plots power curves.


PREREQUISITES

You need recent versions of the following programs in order to use
PowerCurved:

- Python
- PyGTK
- Numpy
- Matplotlib

All of them are easy to install in most operating systems.


INSTALLATION

This is pure python, no need for installation (and no installation scripts available yet). Just open a terminal, go to the PowerCurved folder and type:

$ python powercurved.py


TODO

- i18n and i10n.
- Better file dialogs (filters...)
- Better docstrings.
- Cleaner code (and get rid of all those hardcoded strings!)
- Support for several air density values?
- Support for WAsP file format?

