Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: Vicar2Png
Version: 0.2dev
Summary: VICAR-to-png image file converter.
Home-page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Vicar2Png/
Author: Jessica McKellar
Author-email: jesstess@mit.edu
License: LICENSE.txt
Description: vicar2png
        =========
        
        `vicar2png` converts VICAR image files to PNGs. The VICAR (Video Image
        Communication and Retrieval) format is commonly used by NASA, JPL, and
        various universities. Read more about the format specification at
        http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/VICAR_file_fmt.pdf.
        
        We wrote and packaged `vicar2png` so that anyone can view, enjoy, and
        remix NASA's mission image data easily by converting VICAR files to
        the popular PNG image format.
        
        Sample usage:
        
            # Use the input filename to generate a default output filename.
            vicar2png cassini01.IMG
        
            # Specify an output filename.
            vicar2png cassini01.IMG test_image.png
        
        
        Installing vicar2png
        --------------------
        
        You can get and install `vicar2png` from PyPI:
        http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Vicar2Png
        
        You'll need to install the setuptools packages before installing
        `vicar2png`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
        
        
        vicar2png demo
        --------------
        
        Once you've installed `vicar2png`, try converting the following files:
        
        ### An image of Jupiter from an Earth-Jupiter cruise during the Cassini mission:
        
           1. Download http://pdsimg.jpl.nasa.gov/data/cassini/cassini_orbiter/coiss_1004/data/1355070805_1355176231/N1355070913_1.IMG
           2. Convert from VICAR to PNG with `vicar2png N1355070913_1.IMG`
           3. Open `N1355070913_1.png` in an image viewer (`open N1355070913_1.png` will do the trick on OS X and many Linuxes)
        
        ### An encounter with Saturn's moon Phoebe from the Cassini-Huygens mission:
        
           1. Download http://pdsimg.jpl.nasa.gov/data/cassini/cassini_orbiter/coiss_2004/data/1465674475_1465709620/N1465674502_2.IMG
           2. Convert from VICAR to PNG with `vicar2png N1465674502_2.IMG`
           3. Open `N1465674502_2.png` in an image viewer (e.g. `open N1465674502_2.png`)
        
        You can find many more images to test at http://pdsimg.jpl.nasa.gov/data/cassini/cassini_orbiter/.
        
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