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Re: Polarization codes
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2008-03-28 01:19:15
On Thu 2008/03/27 21:53:37 MDT, Doug Tody wrote
in a message to: Mark Calabretta <mcalabreatnf.csiro.au>
and copied to: Paddy Leahy <j.p.leahymanchester.ac.uk>, fitswcsnrao.edu

Dear Doug,

>Normally I don't fall for the flame-bait, but actually
significant

You surprise me completely, that was not
"flame-bait".

>parts of the WCS concept and technology were developed
independently
>in IRAF, way back in the eighties, and with great
reluctance were

Original versions of G&C (it started as a single paper)
used the CDi_j
variant of the CD00i00j matrix proposed by Hanisch &
Wells (1988) which
came from the NASA-sponsored meeting held in Charlotesville
in Jan/1988.
Isn't that where IRAF got the CD matrix?

However, we are obliged to you for convincing us to preserve
CDELTn.
This followed a discussion between you and Eric at the AAS
meeting in
Berkeley in 1993, I have the email from Eric detailing your
reasons if
you want to see it.  Consequently we reverted to CDELTi +
matrix.
Initially we were going to call it CDi_j with the current
meaning of
PCi_j but there were objections regarding prior conflicting
usage in
IRAF so Eric changed the name.  Your original email
accepting this
solution is appended.

>later allowed to influence the development of the actual
WCS standard,
>which has always been tightly controlled by G&C.

Later you insisted that we must revert to the CDi_j matrix. 
I don't
recall that you ever provided a reason, I believe it was
simply because
it was the way IRAF did it.  That is what we resisted, for
the reasons
originally espoused by you in 1993, and for compelling
reasons that
emerged subsequently, c.f. Sect. 2.1.2 of Paper I.

>We didn't merely
>"adopt" it later as you suggest above

Point (4) in my itemised list refers to the AIPS convention,
not the
WCS standard, so you've fundamentally misread what I was
saying.  Didn't
you adopt the AIPS convention in IRAF?  If not, then I was
mistaken.

> - the current WCS implementation
>in IRAF predates the WCS standard.

Doesn't it use WCSLIB?  Lindsay provided me with much
valuable feedback
on the earlier versions of WCSLIB.  I was given to
understand that she
was modifying IRAF to use it.  (Sadly, AIPS, Miriad and
karma also have
not progressed beyond the AIPS convention and I'm sure there
are many
more.)

>In the end we did not mind since
>it turned out ok - plus it could never have been as good
as it is
>without the expertise of all involved.  But please don't
suggest that
>WCS came only from the radio/AIPS community.

All of the non-linear stuff came from Eric's original AIPS
memos, my
aips++ memo, and what we added subsequently ourselves and
with useful
input from a number of people.  As far as I am aware, your
input was
related to issues regarding the CD matrix.  We were also
vaguely aware
that you may have had something to do with alternate
coordinate
descriptors but I have nothing to confirm that.

In fact, I did a meticulous search through thousands of
emails (2880
would you believe! - see attached) to ensure that everyone
who provided
significant input to the paper, not simply asking a
question, is listed
in the acknowledgements.  Stricty speaking, your input all
relates to
Paper I.  However, we included you in Paper II also as a
courtesy.

Was there something else that I am unaware of?

Regards, Mark

>>>

Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 20:23:03 MST (Mon 13:23 EST)
From: todynoao.edu (Doug Tody)
To: egreisenprimate.cv.nrao.edu
Cc: mcalabrenoao.edu
Subject: Re: change to CD wrt CDELT

>    I did not realize how widespread the usage of a
proposed but not
> much discussed format has been.  I could adopt the
attitude that
> people who do that get what they deserve.  But it would
be friendlier
> to consign both CDiiijjj and CDi_j to the "we know
what they mean and
> will no longer use them" category and replace
CDiiijjj in the wcs
> proposal with something else - tentatively PCiijjj
("pixel conversion,
> "politically correct", ...).  I have placed a
revised draft in the
> fits area (later today).

Eric - this looks to me like it ought to resolve the
problem.  I will be
happy with whatever you choose to call the new matrix.  My
only comment is
that since most or all the other WCS keywords have a
"C" prefix, it would be
more pleasing to call the new matrix
C<something-other-than-D>.  CD matrix
is "Coordinate Definition[Determination?] matrix"
so logically one would be
looking for a word other than "Definition" and
this would provide a name for
the new keyword.  Perhaps "Coordinate Transformation
matrix", CT?  But as I
say, "PC" is fine with me if that is what you
prefer.  ("Politically Correct"
is certainly more fun than my suggestion though).

Cheers, Doug

>>>

Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:52:28 +1100
From: Mark Calabretta <mcalabregrus.atnf.CSIRO.AU>
To: Eric Greisen <egreisencv3.cv.nrao.edu>
Cc: Bob Hanisch <hanischstsci.edu>
Subject: Re: Paper I edits

On Wed 2002/03/06 11:07:37 +1100, Mark Calabretta wrote
in a message to: Eric Greisen <egreisencv3.cv.nrao.edu>

>I was also intending to produce a list of all email
senders in my
>archive and that would be useful for this exercise.

Hi Eric,

The list is appended - this consists of all WCS email (2362
messages) plus
that of the fitswcs exploder (216); total 2578.   It
excludes my WCSLIB
(219) and PGSBOX (83) folders.

Including these, my grand total is - would you believe -
2880!

I've appended the script I wrote to count the senders.  It
assumes that
each message resides in a separate file (as in MH mail
folders).  It would
be interesting to see what figures you come up with.  (If
you use unix
mail you could just 'inc' it into MH for the purpose.)

I'll get back to you on the other question re. Paper I
acknowledgements.

Cheers, Mark

>>>

  930  Mark Calabretta
  726  Eric Greisen
  182  Steve Allen
  123  Don Wells
   79  Patrick Wallace
   36  William Pence
   34  Brian Glendenning
   30  Bob Hanisch
   27  Doug Mink
   23  William Thompson
   22  David Berry
   20  Arnold Rots
   19  Barry Schlesinger
   18  Doug Tody
   18  Frank Valdes
   17  Peter Bunclark
   15  Lindsey Davis
   15  Mike Kesteven
   11  Peter Teuben
   11  Stephen Walton
    8  Malcolm Currie
    8  Dave Green
    8  Clive Page
    7  Jeff Bloch
    7  Ray Norris
    6  Wim Brouw
    6  Bill Gray
    6  Lee Howells
    5  Richard Hook
    5  Emmanuel Bertin
    4  Russell Cannon
    4  Lucio Chiappetti
    4  Bob Garwood
    4  Perry Greenfield
    4  Tim Pearson
    4  Jeff Pier
    3  David Barnes
    3  Bill Cotton
    3  Bev Ewen-Smith
    3  Douglas Finkbeiner
    3  Dorothy Goddard
    3  Sally Hales
    3  Gareth Hunt
    3  Neil Killeen
    3  Jonathan McDowell
    3  Vince McIntyre
    3  Mehrdad Moshir
    3  Francois Ochsenbein
    3  Rob Seaman
    2  Marsha Allen
    2  Joss Bland-Hawthorn
    2  Pierre Dubath
    2  Rick Ebert
    2  Steven Gibson
    2  Louis Giglio
    2  Richard Gooch
    2  Jean Guibert
    2  Bob Hanson
    2  Philip Jacknis
    2  Leonia Kogan
    2  Tom Kuiper
    2  Jim Lewis
    2  Ashish Mahabal
    2  Patrick Murphy
    2  Michael Newberry
    2  Andrew Pickles
    2  Ray Plante
    2  Bob Sault
    1  Herve Aussel
    1  Anne Barends
    1  Marten Blixt
    1  Julian Daniels
    1  Bob Denny
    1  Erik Deul
    1  Jesse Doggett
    1  Anders Eklof
    1  Thierry Forveille
    1  Immanuel Freedman
    1  Maik Gottschalk
    1  Paul Green
    1  Stephane Guilloteau
    1  Greg Hennessy
    1  Phil Hodge
    1  G. Jarvis
    1  Justin Jonas
    1  Osamu Kanamitsu
    1  Michael Kesteven
    1  Dana Kovaleva
    1  Juergen Liesmann
    1  Stupendous Man
    1  Malte Marquarding
    1  Brian McLean
    1  Yas Murata
    1  Robert Mutel
    1  Jerome Neel
    1  Mike Newberry
    1  Michael Nolan
    1  Mike Nolan
    1  Bill Owen
    1  Juan Santander
    1  P Sartoretti
    1  Paul Schlyter
    1  Thomas Schmidt
    1  David Shupe
    1  Lister Staveley-Smith
    1  Bringfried Stecklum
    1  Michal Szymanski
    1  Jim Ulvestad
    1  Manabu Watanabe
    1  Andreas Wicenec
    1  Steve Willner
    1  Oleg Yu. Malkov

    4  JournalA&A
    2  Majordomokochab.cv.nrao.edu
    1  Majordomomajordomo.cv.nrao.edu
    1  Mail Delivery Subsystem
    1  fitswcs-admindonar.cv.nrao.edu
    1  FITS SUPPORT OFFICE
    1  A+A Leiden
-----  -----
 2578  Total


>>>


#!/bin/sh
#-----------------------------------------------------------
------------------
# Find all email senders in an MH mail folder.
#-----------------------------------------------------------
------------------
  trap 'rm -f list.raw' 1 2 3 15
  rm -f list.raw

# Find the first occurrence of "From:" in each
file.
  for i in `ls [1-9]* | sort -n`
  do
    sed -n -e "/^From:/{s/^/$i: /;p;q;}" $i
>> list.raw
  done

  sed -e 's/.*From: //'                             
      -e 's/ *(via the vacation program)//'         
      -e '{s/^"//;s/"* <.*>$//;}'           
       
      -e '{s/.*.* (//;s/)$//;s/ (.*//;}'           
      -e 's/^Dr. *//'                              
      -e 's/[(.*)]/1/'                         
      -e 's/ [A-Z].* / /'                          
      -e 's/([A-Za-z]*).([A-Za-z]*).*/1
2/' 
      -e 's/=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_N=E9el?=/Jerome Neel/'

      -e 's/abarends/Anne Barends/'                 
      -e 's/BARRY SCHLESINGER/Barry Schlesinger/'   
      -e 's/davisnoao.edu/Lindsey Davis/'          
      -e 's/dwellsnrao.edu/Don Wells/'             
      -e 's/DUBATH Pierre/Pierre Dubath/'           
      -e 's/Jacknis, Philip S./Philip Jacknis/'     
      -e 's/GUIBERT/Guibert/'                       
      -e 's/gjarvis.*/G. Jarvis/'                  
      -e 's/jrlast.*/Jim Lewis/'                   
      -e 's/mcalabre/Mark Calabretta/'              
      -e 's/mwatana.*/Manabu Watanabe/'            
      -e 's/P.T.Wallace/Patrick Wallace/'           
      -e 's/rjhanisch/Bob Hanisch/'                 
      -e 's/ROBIN::AIPSMNGR/Mark Calabretta/'       
      -e 's/sla.*/Steve Allen/'                    
      -e 's/teuben.*/Peter Teuben/'                
      -e 's/thompsonorpheus.*/William Thompson/'   
      -e 's/Vincent McIntyre/Vince McIntyre/' list.raw | 
  sort +1 | 
  awk 
    'BEGIN { 
        sender = "" ; count = 0 ; total = 0
     } 
     sender == "" { 
        sender = $0 
     } 
     sender == $0 { 
        count++ ; 
        total++ 
     } 
     sender != $0 { 
        print sprintf("%5d  %s", count, sender) ;

        sender = $0 ;
        count = 1 ;
        total++ 
     } 
     END { 
        print sprintf("%5d  %s", count, sender) ;

        print sprintf("-----  -----", total) ; 
        print sprintf("%5d  Total", total) ; 
     }' > list.cooked
  
  exit 0


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Re: Polarization codes
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2008-03-28 09:23:35
Hi Mark -

You are right, flame-bait was probably too strong a term (it
had been
a long day).  I don't think there is any point in us getting
into a
long discussion of the history of WCS; I was merely
objecting to your
suggestion that IRAF merely adopted WCS after it had been
developed,
implemented, and proven in AIPS.  That was too much to let
pass
without a comment.  But I don't want to let this distract us
from
the very important polarization discussions.

> Original versions of G&C (it started as a single
paper) used the CDi_j
> variant of the CD00i00j matrix proposed by Hanisch
& Wells (1988) which
> came from the NASA-sponsored meeting held in
Charlotesville in Jan/1988.
> Isn't that where IRAF got the CD matrix?

Indeed this is where the CD matrix came from - it grew out
of work
done primarily by the STSDAS group at STScI.  Bob and the
STSDAS
group at the time were members of the overall IRAF project,
of course.
The CDi_j notation is what is used in IRAF MWCS (see below),
although
I don't remember anymore exactly how we came up with this
notation.

> > - the current WCS implementation
> >in IRAF predates the WCS standard.
> 
> Doesn't it use WCSLIB?  Lindsay provided me with much
valuable feedback
> on the earlier versions of WCSLIB.  I was given to
understand that she
> was modifying IRAF to use it.  (Sadly, AIPS, Miriad and
karma also have
> not progressed beyond the AIPS convention and I'm sure
there are many
> more.)

No, IRAF does not use WCSLIB, that came along much later. 
The IRAF
implementation of WCS is MWCS, which was introduced in
1989.
Many modern WCS concepts were introduced in MWCS, although
they may
well have been developed independently in AIPS at about the
same time.

Cheers,

	- Doug

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Re: Polarization codes
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2008-03-28 15:31:03
On Mar 28, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Mark Calabretta wrote:

>
> On Thu 2008/03/27 21:53:37 MDT, Doug Tody wrote
>
>> parts of the WCS concept and technology were
developed independently
>> in IRAF, way back in the eighties, and with great
reluctance were
>
> Original versions of G&C (it started as a single
paper) used the CDi_j
> variant of the CD00i00j matrix proposed by Hanisch
& Wells (1988)  
> which
> came from the NASA-sponsored meeting held in
Charlotesville in Jan/ 
> 1988.
> Isn't that where IRAF got the CD matrix?
>
> However, we are obliged to you for convincing us to
preserve CDELTn.
> This followed a discussion between you and Eric at the
AAS meeting in
> Berkeley in 1993, I have the email from Eric detailing
your reasons if
> you want to see it.  Consequently we reverted to CDELTi
+ matrix.
> Initially we were going to call it CDi_j with the
current meaning of
> PCi_j but there were objections regarding prior
conflicting usage in
> IRAF so Eric changed the name.  Your original email
accepting this
> solution is appended.
>
>> later allowed to influence the development of the
actual WCS  
>> standard,
>> which has always been tightly controlled by
G&C.
>
> Later you insisted that we must revert to the CDi_j
matrix.  I don't
> recall that you ever provided a reason, I believe it
was simply  
> because
> it was the way IRAF did it.  That is what we resisted,
for the reasons
> originally espoused by you in 1993, and for compelling
reasons that
> emerged subsequently, c.f. Sect. 2.1.2 of Paper I.
>

I haven't been following this whole thread so I may be
taking this  
out of context. My recollection is that the CD convention
was already  
in use for HST images and thus there was a strong desire not
to redo  
that convention or the software that supported it. I don't
think it  
was just Doug that insisted that it not be dispensed with or
its  
meaning changed. Indeed, I thought it was STScI that was
most  
insistent on that point. If that was the case, I'd be very
surprised  
that the reason wasn't very explicit at the time. But I was
not  
really involved in the issue at the time if I recall
correctly. Bob  
can correct me if I got this wrong.

Perry

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