Rachel Mandelbaum

I'd prefer not to give up on this one, though I admit that it being open for 8 years is not promising. It could be a good starter project...

As per https://github.com/GalSim-developers/GalSim/blob/releases/2.3/INSTALL.rst , we do not currently support installation on Windows, so this kind of error is expected.

Good point. My understanding had been that everyone who has done that (e.g., @dkirkby ) have been using the PhoSim input catalogs if they want to have a deep simulated...

Note that this code is available at https://github.com/EiffL/cosmos_extrapolation , with an ipython notebook demonstrating the strategy. It's not integrated into GalSim yet, but this gives an idea of how it...

Thanks, David! I forgot about the option to read in a FITS file without bringing in all the many dependencies. I agree that a comparison would be interesting!

My impression was that @kadrlica had some suggestions about this that he is presenting to the DESC Survey Sims group tomorrow Aug 3. I have a regular conflict with that...

I think it's worth separating this into "work to be done with external datasets" and "work to be done in GalSim to make it accommodate these things". I actually have...

Yes, thanks for that!

@rmjarvis - thanks for expanding the project description. I just added a few more things and clarified a few others.

If nobody tackles this before ~2 weeks from now, I could play around with it then.