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in #717 I added the option to read parts of plates

for the cytation this was constrained to rectangles since that's all the firmware supports

in this pr we update that to allow any subset of wells

we will find the largest rectangles in the specified wells and read those. this is faster because the cytation can scan column by column or row by row

note: gen5.exe will only read a rectangle when the entire subset is a rectangle. when the shape is anything just a little more complex than a full rectangle, it will read every well one by one. so PLR is much faster. see "infographic" below:

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@rickwierenga rickwierenga changed the title non_overlapping_rectangles support reading any subset of wells on cytation5 Oct 17, 2025
@rickwierenga rickwierenga force-pushed the non-rectangular-shapes-cytation-plate-reading branch from 794279d to 72b0f8b Compare October 17, 2025 01:06
@rickwierenga rickwierenga merged commit 2b88140 into main Oct 17, 2025
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@rickwierenga rickwierenga deleted the non-rectangular-shapes-cytation-plate-reading branch October 22, 2025 00:34
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