| Re: Good-bye Plot, Surface, Contour, TV and all the rest! [message #73612] |
Tue, 16 November 2010 19:16 |
David Fanning
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David Fanning writes:
> I have updated both FSC_Plot and FSC_PlotS this morning.
> Both have been updated to allow a different color for
> plot symbols (SYMCOLOR), and symbols can now be selected
> from the 46 symbols available in SymCat. A NoData keyword
> has also been added to FSC_Plot.
Yikes! These programs haven't been as all-inclusive as
I intended them to be. :-)
I learned tonight that people running older versions of
IDL (6.4 and earlier) were having problems running the
programs and creating PostScript output files. It seems
that setting the color decomposition state of the current
graphics device is quite device and version specific.
To get around the problem, I've written a new program
called SetDecomposedState that sets the color decomposition
state in a device independent way by taking these dependencies
into account. FSC_Contour, FSC_Surf, and FSC_Plot have
been updated to set the color decomposition state with
this new program.
This should make things a great deal smoother for our
friends running older versions of IDL. :-)
http://www.dfanning.com/programs/setdecomposedstate.pro
http://www.dfanning.com/programs/fsc_contour.pro
http://www.dfanning.com/programs/fsc_surf.pro
http://www.dfanning.com/programs/fsc_plot.pro
As always, if you have problems, don't just assume I'm
an idiot. Let me know about it. ;-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Good-bye Plot, Surface, Contour, TV and all the rest! [message #73623 is a reply to message #73612] |
Tue, 16 November 2010 07:15  |
David Fanning
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David Fanning writes:
> Paul writes:
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>> ...actually, /OVERPLOT gives me no axis, and /NOERASE requires
>> specifying the correct margins...
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> Yes, /OVERPLOT was missing and I've added it to the example.
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> I guess the *point* of that example was no axes, but
> perhaps I didn't stress it enough. With TVImage you can
> have axes without saving the coordinate system (like the
> TV command), axes with the coordinate system (by setting
> both AXES and SAVE), or no axes and the coordinate
> system (as in the example, with just SAVE).
I realized this morning, Paul, when I looked at that
page with fresh eyes, that my answer yesterday was
just blowing smoke out my ... Well, anyway, sorry. :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Good-bye Plot, Surface, Contour, TV and all the rest! [message #73624 is a reply to message #73623] |
Tue, 16 November 2010 07:07 |
David Fanning
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Jeremy Bailin writes:
> One thing that might be nice to add to FSC_Plot and FSC_PlotS is the
> ability to specify an array for COLOR. I always find it a little silly
> to have to wrap them in histogram + for loops just to plot multiple
> colored points at once!
I have updated both FSC_Plot and FSC_PlotS this morning.
Both have been updated to allow a different color for
plot symbols (SYMCOLOR), and symbols can now be selected
from the 46 symbols available in SymCat. A NoData keyword
has also been added to FSC_Plot.
FSC_PlotS has been further updated to allow the COLOR,
SYMCOLOR, and SYMSIZE keywords to be vectors. This
makes it possible to easily create multicolored lines
and/or multicolored symbols. Being able to size symbols
adds yet another dimension to your data plots.
Here is an example.
data = LoadData(1)
time = Scale_Vector(Findgen(101), 0, 6)
LoadCT, 33, /Silent
FSC_Plot, time, data, /NODATA, XTITLE='Time', YTITLE='Signal'
FSC_PlotS, time, data, PSYM=-16, COLOR=BytScl(data), $
SYMCOLOR=BytScl(data), SYMSIZE=Scale_Vector(data, 1.0, 2.5)
Any other requests? :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Good-bye Plot, Surface, Contour, TV and all the rest! [message #73636 is a reply to message #73624] |
Mon, 15 November 2010 17:27 |
David Fanning
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Paul writes:
> ...actually, /OVERPLOT gives me no axis, and /NOERASE requires
> specifying the correct margins...
Yes, /OVERPLOT was missing and I've added it to the example.
I guess the *point* of that example was no axes, but
perhaps I didn't stress it enough. With TVImage you can
have axes without saving the coordinate system (like the
TV command), axes with the coordinate system (by setting
both AXES and SAVE), or no axes and the coordinate
system (as in the example, with just SAVE).
The problem with TVImage (as it always seems to be!)
is too much baggage. Originally it started out to be
like TV. In retrospect that may have been the worst
mistake I ever made in my IDL career. :-)
In any case, I need more and better examples of what
you can do with these routines. But since this is
*exactly* what my new book is about, its a choice
between writing examples for my web page or for my
book. I'll bet you can guess which option has a better
chance of paying off. ;-)
Cheers,
David
P.S. By the way, I'm working on FSC_Plot tonight.
I've got a new SYMCOLOR keyword, so you can plot
symbols in a (different) single color from the
axes and from the data. Very slick. I'm still working
on making vectors of symbols and colors. By the way,
you can now use any of the 46 symbols available in
SymCat, including the paltry 8 or so that you could get
with the PLOT command. :-)
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Good-bye Plot, Surface, Contour, TV and all the rest! [message #73651 is a reply to message #73638] |
Mon, 15 November 2010 08:31 |
David Fanning
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Ben Tupper writes:
> I think the suggestion to allow vectors of colors would be great. But
> it will require a switch from OPLOT to PLOTS under the hood. PLOTS
> allows you to provide a vector for colors and not the others symbol
> related things. SymSize and PSym are only permitted as scalars. Bummer.
Easily accomplished. I didn't have FSC_PLOTS written when
I was writing FSC_PLOT, so that will probably be an easy
switch. But, I really do have to get through my mail first. :-(
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Good-bye Plot, Surface, Contour, TV and all the rest! [message #73652 is a reply to message #73651] |
Mon, 15 November 2010 08:17 |
ben.bighair
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On 11/15/10 11:00 AM, David Fanning wrote:
> Jeremy Bailin writes:
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>> One thing that might be nice to add to FSC_Plot and FSC_PlotS is the
>> ability to specify an array for COLOR. I always find it a little silly
>> to have to wrap them in histogram + for loops just to plot multiple
>> colored points at once!
>
> Give me 10 minutes to get through the stack of bills that
> have been piling up on my desk the past three weeks. :-(
>
Hi David,
This is great! Thank you!
I think the suggestion to allow vectors of colors would be great. But
it will require a switch from OPLOT to PLOTS under the hood. PLOTS
allows you to provide a vector for colors and not the others symbol
related things. SymSize and PSym are only permitted as scalars. Bummer.
Cheers,
Ben
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| Re: Good-bye Plot, Surface, Contour, TV and all the rest! [message #73653 is a reply to message #73652] |
Mon, 15 November 2010 08:00 |
David Fanning
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Jeremy Bailin writes:
> One thing that might be nice to add to FSC_Plot and FSC_PlotS is the
> ability to specify an array for COLOR. I always find it a little silly
> to have to wrap them in histogram + for loops just to plot multiple
> colored points at once!
Give me 10 minutes to get through the stack of bills that
have been piling up on my desk the past three weeks. :-(
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Good-bye Plot, Surface, Contour, TV and all the rest! [message #73654 is a reply to message #73653] |
Mon, 15 November 2010 07:51 |
Jeremy Bailin
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On Nov 14, 10:47 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Long weekend. :-)
>
> But I just checked in all my changes and new programs to
> support device independent, color model independent,
> graphics programs with "traditional" IDL graphics commands.
>
> I now have replacements for the following commands: Plot,
> Oplot, PlotS, Surface, Shade_Surf, Contour, TV, and TVScl.
> You can read about the new commands and see some examples
> here:
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/graphics_tips/newoldcmds.html
>
> This was a bit harder than I anticipated. Especially the
> new FSC_Surf program, which is a wrapper for both Surface
> and Shade_Surf. I had to dig deep into the Surface chapter
> of my new book to figure out what was going on. And then, when
> I thought I had it all figured out, I tried to do a
> multi-plot and yikes! I had surfaces all over the damn
> place! Suffice it to say, my back hurts tonight. I didn't
> plan to be sitting in front of a computer for this long!
>
> In support of these programs, I made changes to TVImage,
> TVScale, FSC_Colorbar, PS_Start/PS_End and probably a
> few other programs I have forgotten about. What I'm saying
> is that this might be a good time to update your Coyote
> Library, if you are interested in giving these programs
> a try.
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/coyoteprograms.zip
>
> I don't expect they are completely bug free, but they
> have already saved me some time creating figures for
> my book and my web page. I like them! I expect some
> of you might, too. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
I think this is going to be a fun week! Thanks for all your hard work!
One thing that might be nice to add to FSC_Plot and FSC_PlotS is the
ability to specify an array for COLOR. I always find it a little silly
to have to wrap them in histogram + for loops just to plot multiple
colored points at once!
-Jeremy.
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| Re: Good-bye Plot, Surface, Contour, TV and all the rest! [message #73655 is a reply to message #73654] |
Mon, 15 November 2010 06:00 |
David Fanning
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SonicKenking writes:
> hi David, its all great except the links are broken.
Huh!? Well, that's a little embarrassing. :-(
As I say, it was a LONG weekend, and I just put the
darn files in the wrong directory when I transferred
them from my machine to the web page. Sorry for the
confusion.
Ok, the link to the page describing the new files:
http://www.dfanning.com/graphics_tips/newoldcmds.html
The link to the Coyote Library, which everyone probably
wants to update:
http://www.dfanning.com/programs/coyoteprograms.zip
Sheesh! It's gray, cold, and snowing here in Colorado
this morning. A good day to head back to bed...
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Good-bye Plot, Surface, Contour, TV and all the rest! [message #73656 is a reply to message #73655] |
Mon, 15 November 2010 04:19 |
SonicKenking
Messages: 51
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On Nov 15, 2:47 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Long weekend. :-)
>
> But I just checked in all my changes and new programs to
> support device independent, color model independent,
> graphics programs with "traditional" IDL graphics commands.
>
> I now have replacements for the following commands: Plot,
> Oplot, PlotS, Surface, Shade_Surf, Contour, TV, and TVScl.
> You can read about the new commands and see some examples
> here:
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/graphics_tips/newoldcmds.html
>
> This was a bit harder than I anticipated. Especially the
> new FSC_Surf program, which is a wrapper for both Surface
> and Shade_Surf. I had to dig deep into the Surface chapter
> of my new book to figure out what was going on. And then, when
> I thought I had it all figured out, I tried to do a
> multi-plot and yikes! I had surfaces all over the damn
> place! Suffice it to say, my back hurts tonight. I didn't
> plan to be sitting in front of a computer for this long!
>
> In support of these programs, I made changes to TVImage,
> TVScale, FSC_Colorbar, PS_Start/PS_End and probably a
> few other programs I have forgotten about. What I'm saying
> is that this might be a good time to update your Coyote
> Library, if you are interested in giving these programs
> a try.
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/coyoteprograms.zip
>
> I don't expect they are completely bug free, but they
> have already saved me some time creating figures for
> my book and my web page. I like them! I expect some
> of you might, too. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
hi David, its all great except the links are broken.
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