SAMP/PLASTIC bridge?

[Allan Brighton]

Mark Taylor wrote:

>> I was also wondering if SAMP would be suitable for a quick-look application?
>> (I guess it would depend on how quick...)
> 
> Can you expand on this - I'm not sure what you've got in mind.
> 
> Mark
> 

I was thinking of a situation where you could, for example, keep updating a
FITS file with images from the telescope and send a "image.load.fits" SAMP
message each time a new image is ready. It would be easy to implement, but
a custom solution might be required (or just a custom SAMP message, if the
performance is good enough). We did this sort of thing in the past with
Skycat and mmap'ed FITS files or image data in shared memory.

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Allan