Light curve visualization interface

[drphilmarshall]

@jbkalmbach @rbiswas4

Rahul and I designed an interactive light curve viewer that we think should not be too hard to implement, over in Twinkles issue #40. Here's the whiteboard we drew:

I think we can use @jakevdp 's JSAnimation package to do this - the basic example is already close to what we want in terms of the interactive part, we just need to replace the plot with our light curve data and highlight effect.

[drphilmarshall]

I guess the Simplest Possible ( #1 )version of this is just to make the static plot with no highlighting and no cutout image, and use sncosmo.plot_lc to do it

[linan7788626]

Hi,

I wrote a small piece of code to implement the visualization of the light curve as @drphilmarshall described in the picture. the screenshot of this app is shown below.

• The code is saved in "./examples/Light_curve_visualization" in the Monitor repo.
• _pyqt4_ is adopted to construct this app, please use "conda install pyqt" to install it first.
• The input of this app is a serial of pictures, which are saved in "./pngs".
• The reason why two same pictures are shown here is that I do not have the images of supernovas, but once we get some, I can replace the bottom images with the new ones.
• You can just use the command below to run the code.

python2.7 example.py

Should you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to let me know. Thanks, Nan