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Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? [message #84106 is a reply to message #84105]

Tue, 30 April 2013 11:17

Mark Piper
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Registered: December 2009

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On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:56:08 AM UTC-6, David Fanning wrote:
>
> My first thought would have been to try to plot all points at once, with
> a single Plot() command, without the loop. Did you try that?
>

As David suggests, vectorization is the IDL Way! Here's an example:

IDL> x = randomu(1, n)*360
IDL> y = randomu(2, n)*180 - 90
IDL> z = floor(randomu(3, n)*256)
IDL> tic
IDL> p = plot(x, y, rgb_table=27, vert_colors=z, linestyle='none', symbol='+')
IDL> toc
% Time elapsed: 0.54600000 seconds.

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		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: Jim Pendleton on Tue, 30 April 2013 13:29
		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 30 April 2013 13:24
		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: Dick Jackson on Tue, 30 April 2013 11:50
		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: Mark Piper on Tue, 30 April 2013 11:24
		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: Mark Piper on Tue, 30 April 2013 11:18
		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: Mark Piper on Tue, 30 April 2013 11:17
		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: David Fanning on Tue, 30 April 2013 09:56
		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 30 April 2013 09:50
		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: David Fanning on Tue, 30 April 2013 09:34
		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 30 April 2013 09:24
		Re: How to display single orbits of satellite data in function graphics? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 01 May 2013 07:48

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