Add the ability for sfsegyread/sfsegywrite/etc to store non-standard trace keys in addition to standard keys rather than remapping standard keys as it is done now.

Reported by: sfomel

sfbargraph – a version of graph to plot bar plots,
could be used as an alternative to sfdots.

Reported by: sfomel

There is an automatically-generated HTML help page for sfgdpen ( http://m8r.info/RSF/sfgdpen.html ), but no such page for sfpen, or sfxtpen.

Reported by: ivlad

implement double complex file type

Reported by: henrykm

Extend rsf.py to handle simple operations on RSF files: add, copy, etc.

Reported by: sfomel

Add/restore interactivity options in xtpen.

Compare Madagascar’s xtpen with the version in SEPlib-5.0.

Reported by: sfomel

Using the option "scalebar=" in sfcubeplot triggers a "Need bar=" error. The scalebar should be made automatically, as with sfgrey.

Reported by: ivlad

There is an outstanding problem (bug) with sfsegyread applied to reading SU files. It was discovered (the hard way) by Ivan Vasconcelos. As far as I understand it: if the user installs SU with XDR support, then the data in the SU files are stored in XDR (big endian) format while the headers remain in native format (little endian on Linux). There is no way to detect this from the file itself or to handle it with the existing endian= parameter. We might need to introduce an additional parameter to handle this particular case.

Reported by: sfomel

A surface plotting program, which is more enhanced than thplot.

Reported by: sfomel

Parallelize basic utilities like sfattr and sftransp with OMP. For sfattr, test using a large dataset if it is worth the code duplication to move the tests for types outside the for loops.

Reported by: ivlad

Add doctest-style testing in Python API:
http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html

Reported by: sfomel

Adding/restoring documentation for common pen parameters.

Requires editing init_vplot.c

Reported by: sfomel

Correct "vplothacker" documentation at http://www.ahay.org/wiki/Graphics_development_with_vplot to make sure that it is consistent with the actual code.

Reported by: sfomel

Add "scons zip" to rsftex to automate packaging a manuscript for submission to Geophysics. "scons zip" will include and replace "scons figs".

Reported by: sfomel

Joachim Mispel [email protected]
to rsf-user

I have a question about the display (on screen and ps output) of seismic data with xtpen (Xtpen). Whenever I try to display a dataset where the number of data points is (significantly) smaller than the number of pixels on the screen, the SEP/RSF image can look downright horrible; at least when compared with SU.

Reported by: sfomel

1. Alias suread to “segyread su=y”.
2. Allow it to accept stdin instead of tape=.
3. Fix SU XDR bug
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1620414&group_id=162909&atid=825645

Reported by: sfomel

Most people installing software from source expect to run

./configure
make
make install

It would be good to write ./configure, a fairly verbose
shell script that would
1. check python installation
2. help the user assign environmental variables
3. check scons installation and install scons if necessary
4. run “scons config”
5. instruct the user to run “scons” and “scons install”

That should do it for users who are too lazy to read
the INSTALL file.

Reported by: sfomel

Complete the guide to main programs
http://egl.beg.utexas.edu/RSF/book/rsf/rsf/prog_html/

Programs missing from the guide:

rm
rotate
rtoc
scale
segyread
segywrite
spike
spray
stack
transp
window

Reported by: sfomel

pen programs (vppen, xtpen, pspen, ppmpen) need proper selfdocs.

Reported by: sfomel

Alternative Java API based on a JNI interface to the C library.

SWIG might be useful: http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Java.html

See also http://www.scons.org/wiki/JavaNativeInterface

Reported by: sfomel

sfdatadoc would be a script analogous to sfdoc but documenting data from the public data repository
instead of programs.

sfdatadoc amoco

would provide a short description and list (in USED IN) all examples of using the Amoco dataset.

sfdatadoc -k synthetic

would list all available synthetic datasets

Reported by: sfomel

Implement mata-file format, useful for IO efficient parallel processing, as collection of RSF files existing on multiple systems in either local or shared directories.

Implement utilities for parallel flows.

Reported by: henrykm

Let sfdoc generate man/troff pages at compile time and put them in $RSFROOT/man (“man prog” would then work like “sfdoc prog” if one remembers to set $MANPATH).

Reported by: sfomel

See http://www.ahay.org/wiki/Seismic_Library

Reported by: sfomel

Complete sfgraph3 to be able to plot surfaces sideways
(orient=2 and orient=3) and with flat=n.

Reported by: sfomel

A "pen" program for Mac OS X based on AquaTerm http://aquaterm.sourceforge.net/

Reported by: sfomel

vppen outN= option is not working properly (affects
vplot2gif)

Reported by: sfomel

Problem with unsigned char support in XDR. To reproduce:

sfspike n1=10 k1=5 | sfbyte | sfdisfil
0: 128 128 128 128 254 128 128 128 128 128

sfspike n1=10 k1=5 | sfdd form=xdr | sfbyte | sfdisfil
0: 128 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Thanks to Antoine Guitton for reporting.

Reported by: sfomel

Update the python API from numarray to numpy.

Reported by: sfomel

Currently the configuration scripts prefer gcc. On systems with gcc 4.5 such as Fedora 14, this results in a compiler bug being triggered in shotfill.c. Possible solution:

Make the configuration scripts detect the gcc version, then, if version==4.5, do one of the following, or a combination thereof:

(1) Look for other compilers and give them precedence over gcc

(2) If no alternatives are found and distro==Fedora14, suggest package compat-gcc-34 and configuration with CC=gcc34, or package clang and configuration with CC=clang

(3) Possibly, put a placeholder instead of the programs using shotfill.c

Reported by: ivlad

Extend sfkirmod and sfkirmod3 to handle layered media.

Reported by: sfomel

In addition to the source release, it would be nice to
provide RPM, Debian, and Mac OS packages. Sourceforge
provides some pointers about software packaging:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1#packaging

Jim Jennings has been looking at Mac OS packaging.

Reported by: sfomel

Use svn propedit svn:ignore to make "svn stat" not show files like .sconsign.dblite and others, throughout the code base.

Reported by: ivlad

sfconjgrad should be extended to handle more complicated
options: prior data model, regularization,
preconditioning, etc.

Reported by: sfomel

Programs using memsize= parameter should get the
default memsize from a special environmental variable.

Reported by: sfomel

Add a Java API (possibly using SWIG).

Reported by: sfomel

Provided that Randy Selzler and BP agree to it and
release the code under a GPL-compatible license:

Separate the bridge program from DDS and all its
dependencies and create a minimalistic package. It
could be included in an RSF subdirectory and
compiled/configured with scons and also distributed as
a separate file.

Reported by: sfomel

Bill Harlan agreed to contribute his C++ conjugate-gradient code from
http://billharlan.com/pub/code/conjugate_gradients/
It needs to be integrated and tested in Madagascar fashion.

Reported by: sfomel

More “pens” for Vplot.

svgpen (to generate SVG)
pdfpen (PDF directly without going through Postscript)
gtkpen (better interface than xtpen)

Joe Dellinger writes:

If someone wants to jump in, start by reading the “vplothacker” documentation. It pretty well covers exactly what you have to know to write a new pen filter. That’s the documentation Dave used to write xtpen and Steve used to write pspen.

See http://rsf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rsf/trunk/pens/docs/vplothacker.doc?view=markup

Reported by: sfomel

Deli Wang writes:

> If I have a data : n1=6000,n2=300,n3=300
>
> I want to transpose it with “plane=13” .In the program the following lines
> -
>
> ```
> n1=sf_esize(in);
> n2=n3=1;
> for (i=0; i < dim; i++) { ****dim=3
> if (i < dim1-1) { ****dim1=1
> n1 = n[i]; / block size / *dim2=3
> } else if (i >= dim2) {
> n3 *= n[i]; / loop over /
> } else {
> n2 *= n[i]; / read n2 blocks at a time /
> }
> }
> ```
> -
>
> So,after that,
>
> ```
> n2=6000300*300
>
> map = sf_intalloc (n2); **** still need to allocate a large memory in core
> ```

The program should be fixed so that map is stored out of core (in a temporary file) when n2 does not fit in memory.

Reported by: sfomel

“scons test” does not work reliably between different
platforms because of floating-point round-off issues.

A special tool is needed to compare vplot files with
reasonable accuracy.

Possible inspiration is sfpldb and Reginald Beardsley’s
sucmp program from SU.

Reported by: sfomel

complete rsfbook.py – a python/scons module for
building books and reports with latex and latex2html.

Reported by: sfomel

Need the capability to generate SEGY headers and trace headers for segywrite.

Reported by: sfomel

sfgrey should display lines identifying slices even
when wantaxis=n. The required change is in
plot/lib/stdplot.c

Reported by: sfomel

Program that would take as input n 1-D RSF datasets and bin size parameters, and creates a n-D RSF output with histogram values. Can be used as histogram for n-tuples (or, for n=2, complex numbers histogram). Probably rough equivalent of SEPlib's Fold3D. It is important to allow integer inputs and outputs besides real-valued ones.

Reported by: ivlad

1) Add an option to sfdoc to output spec files in the
format that Jeff Thorson defined for TKSU. This would
make TKSU immediately applicable. Spec files can be
generated automatically at the compile time.

See http://www.henrythorson.com/interface.htm

2) Rewrite TKSU in Python using Tkinter.

For more discussion, see
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1579059&forum_id=552249

Reported by: sfomel

A simple MPI program that would split the data into
chunks, send them to different nodes, run a system
command on each node, and collect the output.

Reported by: sfomel

Add Bezier curves as a vplot primitive. Then use them to port open-source Type 1 fonts to Vplot. (Joe Dellinger)

Reported by: sfomel

Create an IRC channel for real-life interaction among users and developers

Possibly use http://freenode.net/

Reported by: sfomel

Plotting like "sfgrey3 flat=n" but with intersecting planes instead of a cube. Suggested by Paul Sava.

Reported by: sfomel