Features request

[liangwang0734]

Hi Kamodo team,

The progress of Kamodo is tremendous. The following are features I found useful in the past in studies of outer magnetosphere data with a focus on basic plasma physics processes. It would be great if you could include some of them in your long term goals. I believe Kamodo already has many of these features, though.

Offline analysis

• user-defined list or function of coordinates of
  • sampling points, e.g., points along satellite trajectories
  • seed points as starting points for field-line tracing
• various slicing options (like Paraview): plane, sphere, arbitrary
• various extraction options: inside/out of sphere, box, below/above plane

GUI functionalities

• calculator in the GUI (e.g., computing and showing 'rho*v_x')
• combining data from more than one runs in the same view
• saving selected data that can be reloaded in the GUI
• saving the rendering scene that can be reloaded in the GUI
• Bult-in web framework for data search (based on SPASE metadata?)

[asherp]

Thanks for the suggestions, Liang!

Offline analysis
I think we could support a range of commonly used geometric functions like this, as custom sublasses of Kamodo. I think this would also illustrate ways to extend Kamodo's functionality outside of interpolators.

GUI functionalities

• calculator - was prototyping a feature like this. The python -> latex translation involves some trial and error - it would be nice to do it interactively, then have a submission button when you're happy with the equation.
• combining data from more than one runs in the same view - we could illustrate this with examples combining two kamodo objects representing different regions in space or time.
• saving selected data that can be reloaded in the GUI - sounds like some kind of export tool based on a user's selection. for time-series this is straight forward, but will have to consider how to do it with 3d objects
• saving the rendering scene that can be reloaded in the GUI - this would kindof work by modifying and saving the config file.
• Bult-in web framework for data search (based on SPASE metadata?) - will need to think more about this one