Fig. 3.

‘Movie’ Image Acquisition Routine Flowchart details the major subroutines called during a ‘Movie’ image sequence acquisition. Before the ‘Movie’ acquisition can begin, SPLASSH executes a series of preparatory subroutines. After the camera begins image acquisition, SPLASSH enters the image acquisition loop in which frames are grabbed from the ring buffer, the image filename is incremented to reflect the number of the image acquired in the sequence, and the image is saved to the camera control computer’s hard disk. Once the number of requested frames is acquired (determined by the frame rate multiplied by the length of the movie) the image acquisition loop ends. To end the ‘Movie’ acquisition, SPLASSH executes a series of closing subroutines that prepare the system for the next acquisition.