Re: [micro-manager-general] Saving images at high speed

[PAVAK S. <pavak@g.ucla.edu>]

Thanks Nico,

I understand completely and appreciate the explanation. It's helpful to
have an idea of the scope of the endeavor and what it may take to make it
possible.

Pavak

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 4:43 PM Nico Stuurman <nic...@uc...> wrote:

> On 4/8/2020 2:54 PM, PAVAK SHAH wrote:
> > Is this metadata management handled in the low level acquisition code
> > or at the MDA / diSPIM plugin level?
>
> Both.  In the lower level, tags are added by the camera adapter, the
> circular buffer, and supplemented by everything the Core knows about the
> system (i.e., the complete system state cache is added). Metadata are
> then transferred to the Java layer, where some normalization happens,
> and a few things are added.
>
> For fast acquisitions, it would be clearly beneficial for the lower
> layers to only send the full system state with the first image, and
> things that change from the previous image from then on out.  Not a
> trivial undertaking, as the upper layers also needs to ways to
> understand this alternate organization of metadata, and want to stay
> backward compatible.  Definitely something to look at, but there is
> quite a bit to deal with already:
>
> https://github.com/micro-manager/micro-manager/issues
>
> Best,
>
> Nico
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