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Re: controlling itools (low level) [message #36378 is a reply to message #36376]

Sun, 14 September 2003 19:30

Richard French
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Registered: December 2000

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On 9/12/03 4:56 AM, in article bjs1n0$j99$1@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, "Olaf
Stetzer" <olaf.stetzer@imk.fzk.de> wrote:
> I understand, that the priority in creating the itools
> was on interactive control, but it would be very nice
> to control everything from IDL code as well.

When I use IDL to generate figures for publication, I like to have an
executable IDL routine (usually, a main program) that non-interactively
generates a final figure. The routine is my 'audit trail' that guarantees
that I can reproduce the figure exactly. If I need to change the figure
later, I can isolate the parts of the routine that need to be modified. This
is very different from, say, using Adobe Photoshop to twiddle with the
contrast of an image, crop it on the fly, unsharp mask it so that it suits
the eye, and save the final result, but not be able to regenerate the final
image byte-for-byte because it is all done interactively without keeping
detailed records of the quantitative processing done at each step.

I hope that itools will make it possible to tweak an image interactively,
but then to preserve all of the information necessary to regenerate the
image from scratch using IDL code. Add my name to the list of people
interested in learning how to do this.

Dick French

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		Re: controlling itools (low level) By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 15 September 2003 01:31
		Re: controlling itools (low level) By: Richard French on Sun, 14 September 2003 19:30
		Re: controlling itools (low level) By: Olaf Stetzer on Fri, 12 September 2003 05:51
		Re: controlling itools (low level) By: David Fanning on Fri, 12 September 2003 05:42

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