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Re: iTools problem with setting isotropic in 8.0 [message #72114 is a reply to message #72113]

Sat, 07 August 2010 16:08

penteado
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On Aug 7, 3:30 pm, Erik Rasmussen <ra...@rasmsys.com> wrote:
> It seems that something changed between 7.1 and 8.0 that is not
> allowing a visualization to be isotropic in iTools.
>
> My IDLitVisualization instance has /ISOTROPIC set, and this should
> force the entire view hierarchy to be isotropic. It does not.
>
> Further, in the IDLITSYS_CREATETOOL function I have tried using no
> SCALE_ISOTROPIC keyword, which should default to zero for that
> variable, which should honor the /ISOTROPIC request in my
> visualization. I have also tried SCALE_ISOTROPIC=1, which should
> force isotropic scaling in any situation, and I have tried
> SCALE_ISOTROPIC=2, ANISOTROPIC_SCALE_3D = 1.0, which should trick the
> iTool into isotropic scaling. None of these worked.
>
> Gosh I would hate to have to do a kludge like a transparent cube to
> trick IDL into thinking the Z range is the full range of the gridded
> data, instead of the spatial range of only the isosurface being
> plotted.
>
> Hopefully this is me being bone-headed. If I figure this out in the
> near-term, I will 'fess up and explain the error.
>
> Anyone else notice this behavior or have any advice?

There are the keywords aspect_ratio (y/x) and aspect_z (z/y).

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		Re: iTools problem with setting isotropic in 8.0 By: Erik Rasmussen on Mon, 09 August 2010 11:23
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		Re: iTools problem with setting isotropic in 8.0 By: Erik Rasmussen on Sat, 07 August 2010 18:54
		Re: iTools problem with setting isotropic in 8.0 By: penteado on Sat, 07 August 2010 16:08

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