| Re: Good-bye Contour Command [message #73536 is a reply to message #73533] |
Fri, 12 November 2010 11:57   |
Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008
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On Nov 12, 2:54 pm, Jeremy Bailin <astroco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 12, 10:17 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
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>> Folks,
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>> I have nothing against the new graphics (other than
>> I think they are too complex to program and they make
>> my computer pay even less attention to me than the
>> faithful companion here at my feet, causing me to
>> retreat back to IDL 7 if I want to get on with it), but
>> I find I STILL rely on simple, fast traditional
>> graphics commands, like CONTOUR, to get my work done.
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>> You may be like me. And, if so, you know how bad the
>> Contour command sucks. Only works in indexed color
>> mode, NLevels gives God only knows how many levels,
>> holes in your plots if you try to draw the contour
>> in PostScript, the list goes on and on.
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>> What if you had a traditional contouring program that
>> actually worked? Would you use it?
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>> Well, now you do. I got fed up fooling around with
>> contour plots earlier this week and just wrote the
>> darn thing. A contour plot command for the rest of
>> us, that works the way we do. On every machine and in
>> every version of IDL. Hurray!
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>> The new FSC_Contour program is meant to do for the
>> Contour command what TVImage and ImDisp and all the
>> rest of the TV alternatives did for the TV command.
>> That is, make it completely obsolete.
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>> You can read about it and see screen shots of some
>> of the things it can do here:
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>> http://www.dfanning.com/graphics_tips/fsc_contour.pro
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>> Cheers,
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>> David
>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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> Nice... I particularly like the ease of overplotting contours on
> images! (oh, and on a related note, thanks again for the /SAVE keyword
> to the new TVIMAGE, which means I can finally replace the much less-
> robust tvim in most of my code).
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> I find it somewhat counter-intuitive that in order to skip all contour
> labels, I need to set SkipLabels=0, though.
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> -Jeremy.
Oh, and the link on http://www.dfanning.com/documents/programs.html
goes to fsc_pickfile.pro.
-Jeremy.
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