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leonarski_fandClaude Opus 5 a27c4cf26f reader: take a miniCBF's mounting from the imgCIF axis table its header states
A miniCBF header states three things about how the instrument is put together
that the reader was assuming instead: which laboratory direction the image's
columns run along, which its rows run along, and which the spindle turns about.
Some beamlines append a CBF template block holding the full imgCIF axis table,
which says all three outright.

Two instruments in the corpus are not what was assumed, in two different ways.
One mounts its detector a quarter turn round, so the image's columns run
vertically. Another turns its spindle about the VERTICAL, with the image mounted
the usual way; its table says so, and its "# Oscillation_axis" line says so a
second way, by naming the image direction the spindle runs along rather than a
vector. Either error leaves the spindle 90 degrees from the image. That is not a
sign, so the run's axis-sign rescue cannot reach it, and no refinement recovers
it: all three affected sweeps indexed nothing usable.

So the table is read. The element axes give the image orientation, matched against
the eight discrete mountings exactly as the NXmx module directions already are -
the match itself moves to DetectorOrientation, so both readers share one
definition rather than two copies. The goniometer axis with no parent gives the
spindle DIRECTION; its sign stays the rescue's business, which is the part a
convention can legitimately differ on. The detector axis with no parent gives the
2theta arm, replacing the assumption that the arm shares the spindle's axis - the
one header stating both states them with the same vector, so this changes no
answer, only what it rests on. imgCIF's frame differs from the internal one by a
half turn about x, a rotation and not a mirror, as writer/HDF5NXmx.cpp already
records from the other side.

Where a header carries no table, a "+SLOW" on the Oscillation_axis line still
says the spindle runs along the image's slow direction. That is the only thing one
of the three affected sets says about it. The axis NAME on that line stays
unusable - the header that carries both says "X.CW" where its own table says Y -
but the direction token is not: where both are present they agree, which is what
makes reading it evidence rather than a guess.

Also: naming a frame with no directory at all now finds its sweep. parent_path()
of a bare filename is empty and iterating an empty path finds nothing, so running
from inside the data directory reported that no images were found.

Measured, with nothing on the command line. The vertical-spindle protein set goes
from no usable lattice to 100% indexed, P 6(3) 2 2 with a cell 0.43% from
deposited, 87846 reflections at 86.3% completeness and CC(1/2) 0.995. Its
companion from the same detector, which has no table and only the +SLOW token,
goes from a spurious monoclinic cell at 2.3% completeness and I/sigma 0.21 to the
right orthorhombic lattice, 97.7% indexed, 59.7% complete, CC(1/2) 0.996. The
quarter-turned set's three sweeps, at three arm positions, now all index without
the hand-passed quarter turn they needed and agree on one cell to 0.03 A. Six
miniCBF sets that state no table and no +SLOW - including one whose
Oscillation_axis line names an axis in a third dialect - are byte-identical in
.hkl, .mtz, .cif and the image statistics, as are two NXmx sets, which is the
shared orientation matcher moving nothing on that path either.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T3yNBXk4wKdMZy1ak2NY7f
2026-08-30 14:03:32 +02:00
leonarski_fandClaude Opus 5 367eba55b1 reader: take a miniCBF rotation axis from the goniometer the header states
Every miniCBF sweep was handed the same hardcoded axis regardless of what its header said, and
Chi/Kappa/Phi/Omega were not parsed at all - there were no members for them. A sweep collected on a
tilted chi cradle therefore ran with an axis that is 54.7 degrees wrong.

The header angles and their increments are now read, the scanned axis is identified from the
non-zero increment (the name is consulted only when no increment is stated, which is what absorbs the
five different spellings the corpus contains, including one file that states no axis name at all),
and a phi scan composes the head chain. An omega scan returns the base axis untouched, because a
fixed chi cannot tilt the axis it hangs from.

-9999 is a sentinel meaning "not set", not an angle. It is treated as absent, so it can never reach
the geometry.

The direction and sense are not invented: these files append an imgCIF _axis loop stating their own
vectors, and SOURCE with GRAVITY fix the imgCIF-to-internal transform, which independently reproduces
the transform this repository already documents for NXmx. Under it the file's own stated phi axis is
exactly the composed one, to four decimals.

Driving the real reader over all 39 corpus sweeps, 37 return the previous axis bit-identically -
including every sweep carrying a large fixed chi, every sentinel header and every axis-name spelling.
Only the two genuine phi scans move, and an unrelated rotation dataset is unchanged end to end.

This is necessary but not sufficient for the one dataset that motivates it: with the axis corrected
it still does not index, because that detector is also mounted rotated 90 degrees in its own plane,
which the reader does not yet read. Compensating both takes its phi sweep from no indexed validation
frames to 90.89% indexed and a complete merge, which is what shows this half is load-bearing. The
detector mount and the two-theta swing belong to the detector-frame work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lc5JG6kJqZoCWaoZ43JGTW
2026-08-29 19:58:50 +02:00
leonarski_fandClaude Opus 5 dc16a00271 reader: read a PILATUS miniCBF sweep natively, without libcbf
Most facilities still archive rotation data as a directory of miniCBF frames, which until now had
to be converted to HDF5 before rugnux could see it. Nothing in that format needs a CIF parser or a
library: it is an ASCII header, four separator bytes, then one byte-offset compressed image, and
every value the reader wants sits on a "# " comment line or a MIME line.

MiniCBF holds the format itself - header parse and the byte-offset decoder, which is a running
value with deltas stored smallest-container-first. Verified byte-exact against dxtbx on PILATUS 6M,
6M-F, 300K, silicon and CdTe sensors, and three sensor thicknesses.

JFJochCBFReader is a sibling of JFJochHDF5Reader under the JFJochReader base. NAMING ANY FRAME
READS ITS WHOLE SWEEP: the sweep is identified by the template (prefix + digit count) the named
frame belongs to, not by "every .cbf in the directory", so a directory holding two sweeps does not
splice two crystals together. Naming a directory takes the sweep with the most frames in it.

Images decode on demand, one per call, so any number of workers can read at once - there is no
global lock as there is on the HDF5 path, HDF5 not being thread-safe. A raw CBF carries no analysis
results, so the dataset it builds is the geometry, the mask and nothing else, exactly as a plain
DECTRIS file with no /entry/MX gives.

Two header quirks are handled because real files have them: the sensor material is written
"Silicon" where the rest of the code compares against "CdTe", and the thickness unit is sometimes
omitted. Headers are not a fixed size either - one set carries 6335 bytes - so the parse runs to
the binary separator rather than over a fixed prefix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 20:12:36 +02:00