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Allow for variable dt (and maximum delta time) in tracking #310

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There are many instances in observational data where the delta-time is not held fixed, or where data gaps are present. tobac does not currently deal with this, instead asking users to come up with a constant dt in tracking. I've started to get questions (and feature requests) for dealing with this, and I think this would be a good problem to solve.

We may be able to do it within our current framework, and within trackpy. At first glance, I think it will require a clever solution (at least without modifying trackpy). We could do it somewhat simply if we can find a way to allow for running trackpy semi-independently for each timestep (which we may be able to do through initial_guess_vels: http://soft-matter.github.io/trackpy/dev/generated/trackpy.predict.NearestVelocityPredict.html#trackpy.predict.NearestVelocityPredict).

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