Visualizing Optical Images

For the following $\sim$90 min, you are being tasked (in groups) to visualize optical images. The goal of this exercise is to both manage your work as a group, and to make conscious visualization choices to generate a nice-looking image.

Step 1: Managing time and defining work flow

Here you will decide what tasks each person in the group should work on. Your VERY FIRST step is to decide how much time should be spent on defining tasks and assignments. Beyond that, the specific tasks and workflow are up to you!

Step 2: Image visualization

Load the data for your image and, implementing the workflow from step 1, work as a team to generate a visualization to share at the end of the exercise [upload to Slack].

Hint - you can download images from the PS1 image server

An important caveat

Visualization examples from S5 were made by professionals.

At the end of this exercise, you should be able to articulate what visualization decisions you made and why— as usual, we are primarily concerned with process, so don’t worry if your final product isn’t perfect (if you want, you could always work on it more on your own, or during tomorrow’s hack time!)