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Better plots with object graphics ? [message #41599]

Tue, 09 November 2004 03:13

Klemens Barfus
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Registered: December 2002

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Dear list members,

When I started with IDL, I did that because I was not satisfied with
three dimensional plots of other programms.
The motivation was to generate plots of simulated cloud fields like you
can see on the following page:
http://de.geocities.com/klemensbarfus/
This graphic has been produced by direct graphics of IDL.
When I talked to an employee of Creaso - the german distributor of IDL
on a conference, he told me to use object graphics to get better
results. After this I bought the recommended book Power Graphics with
IDL, hoping, that I would get sometime as nice visualisations as the IDL
examples.
The question is now: before I start with object graphics, will I get
better cloud visualisations with for example changing illumination etc ?
Or are object graphics in this case just useful for animations, when I
want to turn the cloud field etc ?
What would be the basic object for these visualisations ? Cube objects ?
Or are there other predefined objects, which are more useful for such
kind of volume visualisations ?
I would like to get a kind of starting point for working with object
graphics though I know, that it would perhaps be better not to start
with 3D stuff :-)

Thanks for your help and comments in advance !

Klemens

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		Better plots with object graphics ? By: Klemens Barfus on Tue, 09 November 2004 03:13
		Re: Better plots with object graphics ? By: David Fanning on Tue, 09 November 2004 05:51
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