Background

@RohanPankaj added a visualization capabilities as a REU project over summer 2023. I am trying to merge it and recon with the alterations in MC/DC and with some of the new dependency.

In the current visualization is handled via Netgen a full fat multiphyscis FEA solver that has x86 builds in conda. The problem is that Netgen currently requires a manual build on ARM MacOS and has no listed support for ppc64 (Power9). We don't need visualization as a strict requirement for MC/DC so I might make the configuration and testing of Netgen a non-standard option requiring additional flags to our current install script

Next Steps

• Handle merge between new MC/DC and old MC/DC
• Configure Netgen on my local machine validate visualizer with new MC/DC version
• Understanding Netgen as a dependency and install requirements

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Curious do we know if the other dependencies,ngsolve and distinctipy, have similar issues?

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The dependencies have all been added and seem to be working on MAC and windows. I had to do some bug hunting to make sure all tests pass but as of PR #143 things seem to be working. When that PR is approved I will close this issue

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ngsolve is a pip only command for osz-arm64 (M1/2/3)

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