Is there any thought about creating a plugin in PIL for FITS access?
cheers, Johann
Russell E. Owen wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johann Cohen Tanugi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I googled a bit without much luck so I figured I would post the question directly here : does PIL support FITS image? If not yet, is there a team working on it?
It does not directly support FITS. One simple technique is to use pyfits to read in the data, then display it using PIL. At least it's simple in regards parsing the FITS data; if you a have high dynamic range image, as is typical for FITS data, then scaling the data to display anything meaningful to the user is another story.
Some resources:
- Astronomical Python (link to pyfits and other utilties): http://www.astro.washington.edu/rowen/AstroPy.html>
- Sample grayscale image viewer (still being worked on but quite functional) RO.Wdg.GrayImageDispWdg in RO package: <http://www.astro.washington.edu/rowen/ROPython.html>
- matplotlib includes an image viewer. It is rather slow but might prove useful.
-- Russell
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