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Type:
Improvement
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Status: Won't Fix
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Resolution: Done
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: afw, obs_lsstSim
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Story Points:5
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Team:Alert Production
Description
The methods defined in obs_lsstSim/bin/makeLsstCameraRepository.py can be easily adapted for use in generating arbitrary, non-LSST cameras. This is useful for the sims stack, both for testing purposes, and because members of other projects have begun asking us to use our code.
This ticket will take those methods, make them fully LSST-agnostic, and place them in afw as utility functions. The code in obs_lsstSim will refer back to these afw methods.
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I've taken a bit of a look, but I think we should talk in person. There are still a few LSST specific aspects, and I'd like to talk about the priority of adding an LSST agnostic makeAmpTables.
Hey Simon Krughoff & Scott Daniel — this has been in review for 18 months now with no obvious progress. Is it actually going anywhere?
We decided to abort the effort. I will mark it as "won't fix".
Thank you!
Upon closer examination of makeLsstCameraRepository.py, there do appear to be lines of code written specifically for the LSST camera.
I'm going to adjust the scope of this issue to create a class basicCameraFactory.py that will read in a text file describing the focal plane layout of a camera and output an afwCamerGeom.camera object. The camera thus output will have an essentially empty ampInfoTable, as the ampInfoTable is
a) unnecessary for the specific sims uses I am imagining (mostly, we need to be able to create cameras to transform from RA, Dec to pixel position on arbitrary cameras) and
b) the method makeAmpTables is where most of the LSST-specific code appears to be.