aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
blob: a637e4989542ff615d5499a091dfd4f52f4d63a0 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
<herd>sci</herd>
<longdescription lang="en">
SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization
application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple
frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and
colormaps. It provides for easy communication with external analysis
tasks and is highly configurable and extensible. DS9 supports advanced
features such as multiple frame buffers, mosaic images, tiling,
blinking, geometric markers, colormap manipulation, scaling, arbitrary
zoom, rotation, pan, and a variety of coordinate systems. DS9 also
supports FTP and HTTP access.
 
 The GUI for DS9 is user configurable. GUI elements such as the
 coordinate display, panner, magnifier, horizontal and vertical
 graphs, button bar, and colorbar can be configured via menus or the
 command line.
 
 DS9 is a Tk/Tcl application which utilizes the SAOTk widget set. It
 also incorporates the  X Public Access (XPA) mechanism to allow
 external processes to access and control its data, GUI functions, and
 algorithms.
</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>