I've gone this far, so I guess the least I could do it make a concerted effort to keep this POS updated during the final stretch (I hope). This means I'm going to have to skip all the intriguing stuff I've been up to the last few weeks, so I'll just say its classified.
Amazingly, even at this stage I'm being pushed to increase the frame rate of the experiment. To that end I'm going to set things up to use pixel subsampling, which reduces the sensitivity of the WFS but results in about a 4x increase in the max WFS camera frame rate. I estimate that with this change I should be able to get shit done at around 70-80Hz instead of the 25 currently. At that rate I should be able to crap out volumes of data at an even higher speed. Hooray.
To that end I generated a new reference image/AOI grid today by blocking the DMs and using the reference mirrors. After establishing an oh-shit backup I'll make changes to the slope code tomorrow to get the new WFS image resolution working.
The good news is that at this point I can do stuff like this pretty quickly. Almost too quickly, since I tend to forget what I changed if I screw things up. Soon it'll be time to retire to a rocking chair by the fire, light up a pipe, and stroke by beard longingly while I tell the next generation of students tall tales about fast centroid code and spatial filter alignment.
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