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 # IllustratedGraphBLAS
 
+To start create a virtual environment and install requirements:
+
+```
+virtualenv --python=python3 .virt
+. .virt/bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
 To build a scene in a chapter
 
 ```