Leginon

h1. redux

redux is a library for loading an image, doing some basic processing and generating a viewable image.

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Goals:

* simple to use python library

* simple to use network daemon that can answer requests for an image and the pipeline of processing to do on it

* simple to use command line client that uses either the network daemon or locally imported python library to do processing

* complex behind-the-scenes result caching

Potential uses include:

* a command line program like xv or imagemagick to view myami images and generate publication quality results

* preparing image for display in Leginon, including contrast adjustments, binning, power spectrum, etc

* any functions in leginon/appion where you need to either bin or calculate power spectrum

* preparing image for display on web pages.  web server can contact redux server.  this can replace php-mrc module which no longer compiles with php > 5.2

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