Fips: an OpenGL based FITS viewer
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2019-02-19 v1
Abstract
FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) is a common format for astronomical data storage. It was first standardised in the early 1980s. Even though astronomical data is now processed mostly using software, visual data inspection by a human is still important during equipment or software commissioning and while observing. We present Fips, a cross-platform FITS file viewer open source software. To the best of our knowledge, it is for the first time that the image rendering algorithms are implemented mostly on GPU (graphics processing unit). We show that it is possible to implement a fully-capable FITS viewer using OpenGL interface. We also emphasise the advantages of using GPUs for efficient image handling.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1901.10189,
title = {Fips: an OpenGL based FITS viewer},
author = {Matwey Kornilov and Konstantin Malanchev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.10189},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Accepted to Astronomy and Computing