Smart snapshot

[lmichel]

Smart Snapshot

This issue does not result from a need I would have now, but from personal though about improving the tool.

Use case

• A user is exploring its dataset with AL
• He/she uses all of the available features
  • Zoom/pan
  • Overlaid
  • colormap
  • transparency
  • etc....
• He/he finally found a setting that perfectly highlights the scientific interest of his data and he/she would like to get a snapshot of it.

The only way he/she has to do it, is to make a screen shot. This will make the picture reusable, but this won't allow to rebuilt it from a new AL session.

Proposal

Add a button that gives a way the run a sequence that would lead to the same picture.

I can figure out different ways to do it:

1. Provide a status (in JSON likely) giving all picture settings at a give time (Fov, Overlay, colormap, ....)
2. Provide a sequence of JS API commands to would reconstruct the current picture
3. Provide a notebook to would reconstruct the current picture.

It is to be noted that both 2) and 3) can be issued from 1)