pymcapostbatch(1)

✨ pymcapostbatch(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the PyMca X-Ray Fluorescence Toolkit manual page for pymcapostbatch — section 1 of the manual, coming at you from the fine people at ESRF. this is the batch result analysis application and she is lowkey iconic, let's get into it 💅

🦋 NAME 🦋

pymcapostbatch — the PyMca batch result analysis application. that's it, that's the whole vibe. periodt.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pymcapostbatch [FILE1] [FILE2] ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so first things first: this bad boy starts the graphical user interface of the PyMca X-Ray Fluorescence Toolkit image correlation tool. GUI girlies rise up 🫶

here's the tea though — you don't usually launch this yourself, because this tool is automatically launched by the PyMca X-ray fluorescence toolkit after a batch analysis. so it just ✨appears✨ like magic when the toolkit is done doing its thing. main character entrance, honestly.

now for what she actually does: it lets you superpose up to three images in RED, GREEN and BLUE so you can investigate correlations among them. very RGB, very aesthetic 🌈. but there's a catch, bestie — all the images have to be of the same dimension. no mixing and matching sizes, she will not tolerate it 🙈

the program also builds a table with all the input images, but ngl — only three of them can be superposed at the same time. three is the limit, that's the rule, don't fight it 💀

and finally, she's not just a pretty face: this program also offers the possibility to perform mathematical operations among the images and simple multivariate analysis. math AND visuals? she ate, fr fr 🔥

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

start her up with no files at all:

pymcapostbatch

this launches the program with a file browser so you can go pick your input files yourself. shopping spree but for data 🛍️

or feed her the files directly:

pymcapostbatch file1.tif file2.tif file3.tif file4.tif

this tries to open the files named file1.tif, file2.tif, file3.tif and file4.tif. tries being the key word, no cap — if they're not there she simply cannot 👑

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• ImageJ

that's the whole page bestie, go forth and correlate those images 💖

🌟 written up by ESRF, dated March 2012, and shipped as part of the PyMca X-Ray Fluorescence Toolkit. thanks for coming to my TED talk, mwah 🎀✨