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Making the chromaticity less extreme allowed the test\n+    # to pass.\n+    chrom_shift_y = lambda w: 0.5*scale*(w-500.)","path":"tests/test_chromatic.py","position":null,"original_position":8,"commit_id":"30e67ebf7eb679f932d52632b668d51da9a02bb5","original_commit_id":"1955e0fb3782a43d116a301d151c6bf6cb9ca369","user":{"login":"jmeyers314","id":3650485,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3650485?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jmeyers314","html_url":"https://github.com/jmeyers314","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jmeyers314/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jmeyers314/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jmeyers314/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jmeyers314/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jmeyers314/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jmeyers314/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jmeyers314/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jmeyers314/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jmeyers314/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"body":"I looked into why the `InterpolatedChromaticObject` tests were failing, and ended up changing a few things.\r\n\r\nThe first was just the prescription for thinning and truncating the bandpasses.  It turned out that even the thinned bandpasses were keeping a pretty wide wavelength range, which led to the `InterpolatedChromaticObject` exerting a lot of effort to generate sample points at wavelengths that didn't really matter that much.  Explicitly truncating the bandpasses has helped with this while maintaining a reasonable looking throughput curve.  Here's the current r-band filter in blue, for instance, with the points used by `InterpolatedChromaticObject` in `test_ChromaticOpticalPSF` overplotted in red:\r\n\r\n![figure_1](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/3650485/14727552/e2a151f0-07e0-11e6-89f7-5833ff2ae56d.png)\r\n\r\nI also looked into increasing the number of `InterpolatedChromaticObject` wavelength samples, and the oversampling.  It turns out that the oversampling tends to be more important than the number of samples, especially for the interpolated `ChromaticOpticalPSF`, which actually goes through two rounds of `InterpolatedImage`s (one for the `OpticalPSF`, and another for the `InterpolatedChromaticObject`).  These two changes have left me mostly happy with the chromatic unit tests, and in fact I was able to restore the previously degraded chromatic transformations back to where they started.\r\n\r\nThe part I'm not as happy about is the last test in `test_ChromaticOpticalPSF`, which compares an image sum with its expected flux from synthetic photometry.  This only works to about 1%, and I haven't figured out why it's not better (doesn't seem to matter what the number of interpolation samples or the oversampling factor are).  An existing comment had indicated that the goal here was 2%, though that's not exactly what was actually being tested for, so the 1% accuracy achieved above actually failed.  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The old algorithm placed a constraint on the relative error in small intervals, which it used to look for sample points that could be thrown away.  The proposed algorithm places a constraint on the global relative error, and uses a divide-and-conquer scheme to iteratively improve the approximation where the current error is the largest until the global accuracy goal is reached.\r\n\r\nThe proposed algorithm is definitely slower, but I don't think this is a problem since thinning is something typically done only once per bandpass or SED.\r\n\r\nAnother impact is that the number of retained samples using the proposed algorithm is typically more than with the previous algorithm, which will lead to slower chromatic code.  I think this ought to be viewed as an increase in accuracy, though, rather than a decrease in speed; the previous code was simply not as accurate as it claimed to 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