Technical Terms#
This page draws together some of the technical terms used throughout the documentation. Consider a 1D line scan:
Axis#
A fixed reference that can be scanned, i.e. a motor.
In the diagram above, the Axis is x. Spec.axes will return the Axes that
should be scanned for a given Spec.
Point#
A single or multidimensional location in scan space. In the diagram above, each
Dimension is made up of lower, midpoint and upper Points. Midpoints are
available as an interator from Spec.midpoints. Arrays of these are available
as Dimension.lower, Dimension.midpoints and Dimension.upper.
Dimension#
A vector of three Points in scan space: lower, midpoint, upper. They describe the trajectory that should be taken while a detector is active while fly scanning. In the diagram above each Frame is denoted by a different coloured section.
Stack of Dimensions#
A repeatable, possibly snaking, series of Dimension along a number of Axes. In the diagram above, the whole Line produces a single Dimension
object, while a grid scan would be a stack of two Dimension objects. A stack of
Dimension objects are produced by Spec.calculate.
See also
Path#
A consumable route through a _stack_. If the Line in the above diagram was
stacked within another line of length 5, then the Path would contain 15 Dimensions. A Path is created from a list of Dimension objects.