| Re: linked views in an itool? [message #71381 is a reply to message #71375] |
Thu, 17 June 2010 09:51   |
Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006
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On 6/17/10 7:13 AM, Kenneth P. Bowman wrote:
> In article
> <d5cc7511-2c6e-453c-99b1-700975031b1f@t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>,
> "Jeff N."<jeffnettles4870@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 16, 5:07 pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman"<k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
>>> In article
>>> < fe89fd85-3c0e-4191-9447-7e249111d...@30g2000vbf.googlegroups .com >,
>>> "Jeff N."<jeffnettles4...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Folks,
>>>
>>>> I'm slowly but surely starting to use itools. The part that i'm
>>>> struggling with now is that i'd like to have an isurface with two
>>>> surface plots in it (two views i'm assuming) such that if i take my
>>>> mouse and rotate one of the plots, the other one is also rotated the
>>>> same way. Is this easy to do? I can't seem to find anything in the
>>>> properties dialogs or help file that gives me a hint.
>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> You can use the OVERPLOT keyword to add a second ISURFACE to the
>>> plot using the existing coordinate system. It is part of the same
>>> plot and rotates, scales, etc. as a whole.
>>>
>>> In fact, although the iTools have different names (IPLOT, ISURFACE,
>>> ICONTOUR, etc.), it is really just one tool. We have an application
>>> that creates a 3-D plot using ISURFACE, to which we add a 3-D
>>> volume data set for isosurface rendering using IVOLUME, plus various
>>> point and line objects using IPLOT.
>>>
>>> Ken Bowman
>>
>> Thanks Ken.
>>
>> Using OVERPLOT puts two surfaces in one plot...which would probably be
>> the exact thing i would want to do in most cases. For this one case
>> though, i need to have two different plots in the same itool. I can
>> probably get by with just rotating one, then rotating the other
>> without too much fuss - it's for a live demo, though, so i thought
>> it'd be slick to have the two plots rotating at the same time when you
>> just use the mouse on one - going for style points here :)
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> Ahh, I see what you are trying to do (cool idea). I am reasonably
> certain this could be accomplished, but don't have the faintest
> idea how. :-(
>
> Ken
Yes, I know this is possible (since if you draw a line profile on an
image a similar linked display is created), but I don't know how to do
it. I would check the code for the line profile operation for hints.
Mike
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