PuffinPlot issue tracker

Bug: a88/520

ID : 520ba7af-575a-429d-9d5c-be2572061717
Short name : a88/520
Status : fixed
Severity : minor
Assigned :
Reporter : Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Creator : Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Created : Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:22:25 +0000
Target : 1.0
Summary : Generalize input format [68]

Comment: --------- Comment ---------
ID: eff6a028-e7f5-4e38-b2d2-8742c9ef8334
Short name: a88/520/eff
From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:22:25 +0000

Requested by Christian after experiences on the JOIDES. Fundamentally,
all that's needed for analysis is a series of 3-dimensional vectors,
so it's a shame that Puffin is tied to the extremely specific OPRF/2G
input format (complete with misspelling of `Azimuth'). Puffin should
accept another, stripped-down format which could be as simple as x/y/z 
but should also have room for e.g. sample code and demag level. This
would also force me to think about what fields are actually necessary in
the full 2G files, allowing malformed files to be rejected on loading
rather than causing a crash at the display stage.

Comment: --------- Comment ---------
ID: e41cf12a-c6c5-4e6c-b953-d35d02779b1c
Short name: a88/520/e41
From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:09:40 +0000

Get files in other formats off Christian for testing.

Comment: --------- Comment ---------
ID: c125926d-608c-4775-a01f-c829efe2c6b1
Short name: a88/520/c12
From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:11:13 +0000

No sense doing a release if we can only read OPRF files! There should be
a well-defined set of required input fields in the documentation.

Comment: --------- Comment ---------
ID: 33986a0f-9d0b-444d-858e-18702b44078f
Short name: a88/520/339
From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:58:18 +0000

Have discussed with Christian. We thrashed out the notion of a
preview window for tabulated data of unknown format, which would allow
the user to specify which columns meant what. This is technically
straightforward, but will require some careful UI decisions.
Christian has put the word out for examples of other data formats,
so I should have something to work with soon.

Comment: --------- Comment ---------
ID: f2750b00-0c3f-4973-92dc-7250d0194e8e
Short name: a88/520/f27
From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:07:35 +0000

Interpreting long core files requires knowledge of the effective
sensor lengths, so this will have to be moved to a configuration
option.

Comment: --------- Comment ---------
ID: 46940baf-a21a-4474-a070-087f73cc4184
Short name: a88/520/469
From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:38 +0000

Most of the heavy work is done on this now, so I'm going to split
off the remaining bits into separate bugs and close this.

Comment: --------- Comment ---------
ID: 0dd174f8-687f-4220-8062-6b6b19991ca2
Short name: a88/520/0dd
From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:19:31 +0000

Mostly implemented, remaining bits opened as more specific new bugs.