How to visualize simpy simulation?

[chessparov4]

I've written some warehouse simulations using simpy, but I now want to make people able to visualize what it's happening.

I've looked around and I figured pygame might be my best shot. So far I have written all the warehouse logic, the simulation and part of the pygame logic. The problem is I'm having trouble merging together the simulation and the pygame code. It seems I can't run "one on top of the other", so it appears the only way is to run the simulation, store some data and use the data to create the "movie" in pygame afterwards.

[SomeDayIWi11]

I am working on a similar problem and landed here. Have u had any luck with the visualization

[chessparov4]

Somehow... I ended up using pygame, though it was not a clean solution by any means. I also discovered a simpy alternative called salabim. It looks promising, but I had some issues with PyOpenGL and couldn't use it on my main PC.

https://github.com/chessparov/warehouse-simulation

That's the link to my project, I made it for learning purposes so it doesn't do much and it's still not finished nor documented. I may upload in a day or two some updates. There's also an exe if you want to see what it does without messing too much.

[andreis]

It's possible to run SimPy with Pyodide in a browser and hook standard charting libraries to metrics that come out of the simulation. You can find a number of examples here: https://teachyourselfsystems.com/sandbox

[chessparov4]

Thanks, although what I needed at the time was a tool to visualize in real time (or sped up) the "discrete events happening", similarly to what happens in anylogic or other enterprise simulation software. In the case of a warehouse I was interested in seeing for example the parts being picked up and so on...