And So It Begins!

With my exams finishing last Wednesday this is my first full week for the project and I feel I’m on a good track.
After some discussions with my mentor (Stuart Mumford) we got a basic plan for the API and I’ve use this to create the base classes that make my API.
Today I was using these classes to create some trivial:

• Preprocessors: objects to prepare observation data for the extrapolation routines, and
• Extrapolators: objects that perform the actual extrapolation routines.

After a bit of wrestling with Pythons class inheritance I have these working.

Of-course, currently they only return empty maps/map3D objects.

But it’s progress!

Next step, port over my Greens Potential extrapolation routine to the new API framework.

The word is in, this summer I’ll be helping SunPy in the development of an API for extrapolating magnetic fields in the solar corona.
I can’t wait… :)

Check out my project proposal here.