.. _intro:

.. _YouWol: https://youwol.com
.. _Poly3D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Pollard
.. _iBem3D: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300414001496
.. _online: https://youwol.github.io/arch-doc/dist/docs/modules.html
.. _node: https://nodejs.org/en/
.. _more references: https://doc.youwol.com/arch-doc/dist/docs/modules/Biblio.html
.. _boundary element : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_element_method

Introduction
============

This is the official documentation of **Arch** for Python.

**Arch** is a displacement discontinuity method (a boundary element method) developped by `YouWol`_.
It is the successor of `Poly3D`_ and `iBem3D`_.

.. image:: media/arche.jpg

Documentation in TypeScript
---------------------------

If needed, see the `online`_ generated documentation for TypeScript.


.. image:: media/example2.jpg