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Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... [message #73828 is a reply to message #73826]

Wed, 01 December 2010 13:57

OUWxGuesser
Messages: 7
Registered: October 2010

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Sadly, the big array is too large for the memory. When I use the TV
route and try to TVRD at the end, it spits out "TVRD: An error has
occurred. Unable to complete command."

On Dec 1, 2:49 pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
> In article
> < 5d27124d-2a89-4667-b024-dd293bda5...@f21g2000prn.googlegroup s.com >,
>
>
>
> OUWxGuesser <aaron.kenn...@und.nodak.edu> wrote:
>> Here's the deal. I have 54 .png plots I want to combine into a 9x6
>> panel plot in IDL. Native resolution for each image is 1000x700
>> pixels. This exceeds the maximum buffer size of 8192x8192.
>
>> No problem... I use congrid and shrink everything to 90% of the
>> original size which gives me a final image size of 8100x3780.
>
>> In my code, I first specify the window as:
>> p=window(dimensions=[8100,3780])
>
>> I then loop through the files I need to panelize (or is it
>> penalize? :) ) and place them in the appropriate places. This
>> works.
>
>> The issue I have is IDL does not listen to my dimensions for the
>> original window! Instead, it creates a window that is 8192x2632.
>> This creates large whitespace between the columns and shrinks the
>> individual panels beyond the original 90% of the original size I
>> specified. This makes things tough to read which defeats the
>> purpose... I want to place these plots on a poster for a conference.
>> My alternative *cringe* is to use GIMP to cut and paste the 54 plots
>> manually. Yikes!
>
>> I have tried messing with the buffer settings thinking this might be
>> the source of the problem, but I just end up getting MESA frame
>> buffer errors and in some cases, IDL crashes to the desktop with no
>> warning. If anyone has any suggestions or assistance, I'd greatly
>> appreciate it!
>
> Why are you opening a window?
>
> Can't you just read the PNG files, concatenate or copy them
> into your big array, then write the array out as a new PNG.
>
> Ken Bowman

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		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: OUWxGuesser on Thu, 02 December 2010 07:40
		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: OUWxGuesser on Thu, 02 December 2010 07:39
		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 02 December 2010 06:39
		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: greg.addr on Thu, 02 December 2010 03:33
		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: penteado on Wed, 01 December 2010 16:15
		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: OUWxGuesser on Wed, 01 December 2010 14:23
		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: manodeep@gmail.com on Wed, 01 December 2010 14:10
		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 December 2010 14:05
		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: OUWxGuesser on Wed, 01 December 2010 13:57
		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 01 December 2010 12:49
		Re: Making a ginormous 54 panel plot... By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 December 2010 12:58

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