lsst::afw; the LSST Application Framework

Introduction

The LSST applications framework provides the basic functionality needed by an image processing system. In particular:

• Images : Representation of Images (and Masks)
• How to manipulate images from python : How to manipulate images from python
• How to display images : How to display images
• Tables : Table and record classes for catalog data
• Table-Based Persistence : Table-based persistence