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[ENH] Efficient Healpix Sky Map Data Visualization #18

Closed xli2522 closed 5 months ago

xli2522 commented 5 months ago

Description:

A function for efficiently constructing filled color mesh or contours from multi-order Healpix data.

Requirements:

Small size, efficient, across all OS.

References:

https://github.com/healpy/healpy https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/gallery/scalar_data/waves.html#sphx-glr-gallery-scalar-data-waves-py

xli2522 commented 5 months ago

Additional healpy references:

xli2522 commented 5 months ago

[x] Need to add support for the UNIQ pixel index option. Reference: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-healpix/issues/91 https://mhealpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_modules/mhealpy/pixelfunc/moc.html https://healpix.sourceforge.io/doc/html/intro_Geometric_Algebraic_Propert.htm#intro:unique https://healpix.sourceforge.io/doc/html/idl_uniq2nest.htm
[x] Add support for different projections. Reference: https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/standard40/fits_standard40aa-le.pdf