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Re: plotting one point with plot3d() [message #83441 is a reply to message #83404]

Wed, 06 March 2013 08:25

Mark Piper
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Registered: December 2009

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On Sunday, March 3, 2013 7:19:49 AM UTC-7, David Grier wrote:
> In making an animation, I wanted to move a single point around a three-dimensional
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> plot, and ran into a bug in IDL 8.2.2. It turns out that it's possible to plot a single point
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> with plot3d():
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> IDL> p = plot3d( [1], [2], [3], symbol = "o" )
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> It is not possible, however, to update that point:
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> IDL> p.putdata, [2], [3], [4]
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> % Attempt to subscript SZDIMS with <LONG ( 1)> is out of range.
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> The two-dimensional equivalent works just fine with plot().
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> I've found a kludgy work-around, but just thought I'd mention the bug.
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> It also would be nice if plot() and plot3d() would accept scalar x, y, and z arguments
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> for the special case of plotting just one point.
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> All the best,
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> David

Done! Eddie fixed this yesterday; it'll be in 8.2.3.

mp

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		plotting one point with plot3d() By: dg86 on Sun, 03 March 2013 06:19
		Re: plotting one point with plot3d() By: Mark Piper on Wed, 06 March 2013 08:25
		Re: plotting one point with plot3d() By: dg86 on Thu, 07 March 2013 16:19
		Re: plotting one point with plot3d() By: Mark Piper on Tue, 05 March 2013 06:56

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