Open ungoldman opened 8 years ago
You might consider something based on numpy. This would integrate well with the other python scripts (for HSD→netCDF and TOA). rio color will handle the particular color corrections I’m using.
I like the idea of a service that pre-stitches/caches the image.
I was looking at jimp as an alternative to imagemagick... it has potential!
@bcomnes remembering our conversation about bundling native dependencies in electron but forgetting the details -- essentially we'd need to package prebuilt binaries for each target distribution right?
imagemagick
andgraphicsmagick
are burdensome external dependencies that don't work well with distributing a bundled desktop application.The options I see are:
I'm leaning towards 3 because I feel like if this ever picks up steam it might be the equivalent of a small DDoS attack on JPA's himawari-8 servers, which would not be very nice at all.
What I'm imagining is a server that:
This could probably be accomplished suitably with nginx caching plus a small service to fetch the latest cached image on each request.