| Re: in search of plotting object [message #29057 is a reply to message #28980] |
Mon, 28 January 2002 11:54  |
nobody@nowhere.com (S
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thanks Pavel, I'm looking at your page now ...
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:37:24 -0700,
Pavel A. Romashkin <pavel_romashkin@hotmail.com> wrote:
> One starting point I know of is David's MPI_PLOT. Another is my DISPLAY.
> DISPLAY already has complete 2D plotting functionality. If you want
> volume rendering, just add your own volume object and lights to one of
> the DISPLAY's models. Saving and restoring is already present, as well
> as printing (a little glitchy but it was never a priority to me) and
> clipboard copying.
> http://spot.colorado.edu/~romashki/idl/display.html
> Cheers,
> Pavel
>
> "Steve Smith" wrote:
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>> Hi-
>> First, let me confess: I've been a direct graphics IDL'r since IDL 4.x, and
>> I've yet to change my ways. I am not a full-time developer, but a scientist
>> / user-developer (I write the code I need and can't buy). For volume XY plott
>> -ing, I usually use Origin. One of the nice things about Origin is that you
>> can save graphs and later go back and edit them or add to them. This feature
>> has to do with the way graphs are represented in memory, as objects (correct?).
>> The various features of a particular graph must be stored as properties of a
>> more general plot object (again, step in if I'm way off) understood by Origin,
>> each particular graph could then be saved as a particular instance of this
>> more general object, which could then be realized at will and modified, printed
>> and saved for later work, yes? I'm pretty confident that such functionality
>> could be added to an IDL app, and probably already has been. So my question is,
>> where is a good starting point? Has this app been written or do I really need
>> to start with more primitive objects and put together my own routine?
>>
>> --
>> Steve S.
>>
>> steve@NOSPAMmailaps.org
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