Allow reading of arbitrary dimension tipsy aux arrays (e.g. 1D or 3D) #403
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This addresses issue #379.
This is unfortunately not straightforward, since the tipsy format does not include information about the number of columns in a tipsy array.
There are several different file types, all which have dimensions inferred
using different methods:
file size, dtype, and number of particles.
read for files >4GB, but in general it is possible to correctly estimate the
number of dimensions
average size (in bytes) of a single data point and dividing the file size
by this and the number of particles. This should be fairly robust except in
some edge cases. A warning is raised if the estimate appears bad.
of dimensions cannot be estimated