Visualization and Output

The visualization and output components provide functionality for generating fringe plots and managing plot data using the visitor pattern for extensible plotting capabilities.

MHO_FringePlotInfo

Class	MHO_FringePlotInfo
Primary Functionality	Wrapper around plot data construction utilities
Key Features	Plot data construction from various data stores VEX information integration JSON-based plot data storage Comprehensive data organization for plotting

The MHO_FringePlotInfo class provides a wrapper around variouis plot data construction utilities. It constructs plot data from various data stores and integrates VEX information. It is intended to decouple the computation of fringe data from the plot mechanism. Key functions include construct_plot_data() for building plot data from stores and fill_plot_data() for populating JSON objects with plot information.

MHO_FringePlotVisitor

Class	MHO_FringePlotVisitor
Primary Functionality	Visitor pattern implementation for fringe plotting
Key Features	Inherits from MHO_FringeFitterVisitor Provides extensible plotting framework Pure virtual plotting interface Allows for multiple plotting implementations

The MHO_FringePlotVisitor class implements the visitor pattern for fringe plotting operations. It provides an extensible framework that allows different plotting implementations to be used with the same fringe fitting infrastructure. The class includes a pure virtual Plot() method that must be implemented by concrete visitor classes. Note that this class (and its base, MHO_FringeFitterVisitor) is implemented in the Containers library (source/cpp_src/Containers/include/MHO_FringePlotVisitor.hh); it is documented here because of its functional role in fringe-fitting visualization.

MHO_DefaultPythonPlotVisitor

Class	MHO_DefaultPythonPlotVisitor
Primary Functionality	Default Python plotting implementation
Key Features	Inherits from MHO_FringePlotVisitor Provides default Python plotting behavior Integrates with Python plotting utilities Concrete implementation of visitor pattern

The MHO_DefaultPythonPlotVisitor class (implemented in source/cpp_src/Plugins/PythonBindings/Visitors/, and documented here because of its functional role in fringe-fitting visualization) provides a concrete implementation of the fringe plot visitor pattern using Python plotting utilities (matplotlib). It serves as the default/fallback plotting implementation for the HOPS4 fringe fitting framework. Plugin-provided alternatives also exist and are selected at runtime via the plugin visitor factory machinery, including MHO_BasicPlotVisitor (embedded matplotlib plotting via the Matplot plugin) and MHO_SubprocessPythonPlotVisitor (a subprocess-based variant for builds without embedded Python).