But I don't mean that we need all of AST - we need to figure out which bits
of AST we ACTUALLY need for simple plotting of axes. For example we don't
need all the fancy Transformation and Resampling parts.
..>David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter W. Draper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 October 2003 11:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ADASS and IVOA ideas
>
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Giaretta, DL (David) wrote:
>
> > We clearly DO have to read FITS WCS headers!
>
> So I'll happily wait for Java AST.
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Peter W. Draper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent: 20 October 2003 16:58
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: ADASS and IVOA ideas
> > >
> > >
> > > Functionally it would clearly be more useful if it could be made pure
> > > Java. One idea would be to see what would be left if AST was dropped
> and a
> > > new graphics system introduced (the idea is that this would be context
> > > pluggable, maybe with enhanced AST functionality being offered as a
> > > web-service). Clearly this would rule out using FITS (1D) images and
> all
> > > spectra would be read from tables with no WCS/units information (all
> this
> > > since we loose the FITS WCS headers parsing). There are probably worse
> > > consequences I haven't thought of...
> > >
> >
>
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