| Surface Plot in Object Graphics [message #9194] |
Sun, 08 June 1997 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Folks,
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have found the
learning curve on IDL 5.0 object graphics exceeding steep.
The documentation and the example programs distributed with
IDL suffer from a lack of practical examples. Like, how
do you put some axes and a title on a surface plot!
Anyway, I have been struggling with this for several weeks
and have come to the conclusion that we probably don't all
have to do this. Thus, I have written and published on my
web page a better surface example.
It is not meant to be the last word in a surface program,
but it demonstrates how to put axes and a non-rotating
title on a plot, how to interactively change plot attributes
(axes color, type of surface plot, etc.), how to send the
contents of the display window directly to a printer, how
to make GIF and JPEG files of the window contents, and
how to put all this into a resizeable graphics window.
The program is named XSURFACE.PRO.
I am probably not doing everything just right yet, but
I think this will be far more helpful to many people
than the programs supplied with IDL.
You can find the program at:
http://www.dfanning.com/documents/programs.html
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Customizable IDL Programming Courses
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com
IDL 5 Reports: http://www.dfanning.com/documents/anomaly5.html
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