Photoelastimetry Documentation

Photoelastimetry processes polarimetric images into stress fields and generates synthetic photoelastic images from stress fields.

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• Users: task-first guides for CLI workflows, JSON5 configs, and troubleshooting.
• Developers: setup, tests, architecture, contribution workflow, and docs/release maintenance.
• Reference: auto-generated API docs for package modules.

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• New user: Installation -> Quickstart
• Existing user: Workflow guides
• Contributor: Developer overview
• API lookup: Reference index

Command-Line Tools

• image-to-stress: invert photoelastic images to stress map
• stress-to-image: forward-simulate photoelastic images from stress map
• demosaic-raw: convert Bayer+polarisation raw files into channel stacks
• calibrate-photoelastimetry: fit calibration profile from known-load data

For exact config keys and aliases, use the canonical Configuration Reference.