The pip package management system is a very convenient way of managing custom python installations that are not managed by the operating system (such as virtual python environments).

pip install numpy scipy essentially works out of the box. Yet, when it comes to numpy and scipy, significant speed can be gained by linking these modules against the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) for linear algebra operations.

In this post, we are going to import the grid data from a Gaussian cube file into Blender, an open-source 3d graphics software.