[Kst] [Bug 108025] Matrix and image reworking

[Brisset, Nicolas]

> > >> There is no concept of frames for matrices.
> > >
> > >   Why not?  Does it never make sense?
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> > There are several occasions in astronomy where you deal with data 
> > cubes (i.e. spectro-imagery). The Matrix/Image reworking does not 
> > include the display of data cube (which is a topic of its own) but 
> > maybe we would like to leave this possibility open in KST. In this 
> > context the concept of frame makes sense for matrices.
> 
>   Great, I wanted to hear that from someone else first before 
> I promoted it. :-)
I don't know whether that makes sense here, but there can exist matrices
with dimensions > 3. Is that something we want to take into account ? I
am not familiar with that kind of manipulation, but I'd encourage you to
look at the netCDF interface, which has a concept of multi-dimensional
matrices and "slices". Since netCDF is probably one of the datasources
we'll want to "upgrade" to support matrices, it probably makes sense to
look at the API to see whether it is consistent with the methods planned
for datasources...

Nicolas