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Related projects
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This is a non-exhaustive list of related, open-source projects for analysis of
EBSD data that users of kikuchipy might find useful:

- :doc:`HyperSpy <hyperspy:index>`: Python library with tools for multi-dimensional data
  analysis. kikuchipy extends this library for EBSD analysis.
- `EMsoft <https://github.com/EMsoft-org/EMsoft>`__: Series of Fortran programs which,
  among numerous other tasks, can dynamically simulate EBSD, Electron Channeling Pattern
  (ECP) and Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (TKD) master patterns.
- :doc:`orix <orix:index>`: Python library for handling crystal orientation mapping
  data.
  kikuchipy depends on this library for all operations with vectors, rotations and
  crystal symmetry.
- :doc:`diffsims <diffsims:index>`: Python library for simulating diffraction.
  kikuchipy depends on this library for handling of reciprocal lattice vectors.
- :doc:`pyxem <pyxem:index>`: Python library for multi-dimensional diffraction
  microscopy.
- :doc:`PyEBSDIndex <pyebsdindex:index>`: Python library for Hough/Radon based EBSD
  indexing.
  kikuchipy depends on this library for Hough indexing.
- `OpenECCI <https://github.com/gorliks/OpenECCI>`__: GUI-based software for controlled
  Electron Channelling Contrast Imaging (ECCI) analysis of crystal defects in an SEM.
- `MTEX <https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/>`__: MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and modeling
  crystallographic textures by means of EBSD or pole figure data.
- `DREAM.3D <http://dream3d.bluequartz.net/>`__: C++ library to reconstruct, instatiate,
  quantify, mesh, handle, and visualize multidimensional (3D), multimodal data (mainly
  EBSD orientation data).
- `AstroEBSD <https://github.com/benjaminbritton/AstroEBSD>`__: MATLAB package with
  indexing tools for EBSD patterns.
- :doc:`xcdskd <xcdskd:index>`: Python library with tools for Kikuchi Diffraction in the
  SEM, with example Jupyter Notebooks.
- `OpenXY <https://github.com/BYU-MicrostructureOfMaterials/OpenXY>`_: MATLAB tool for
  cross-correlation analysis of EBSD patterns.
- :doc:`DefDAP <defdap:index>`: Python package for correlating EBSD and high-resolution
  digital image correlation data.
- `pycotem <https://mompiou.github.io/pycotem/>`__: Python package for working with
  crystal orientations in transmission electron microscopy.