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Re: screen capture of xplot3d [message #74208 is a reply to message #74064]

Sat, 01 January 2011 18:36

kedmond
Messages: 8
Registered: July 2008

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I agree, it's easier to do what I want in plot3d.pro, but the surface
procedure that it uses to draw the plot symbols doesn't support IDL's
graphical objects...unless I'm mistaken. For example, for the really
nice image I can make in xplot3d, I do something like the following

oSphere1 = obj_new('orb', COLOR=coltet[*, 0], alpha_channel=alphaval)
...
oSymbol1 = obj_new('IDLgrSymbol', oSphere1)
...

xplot3d, x, y, z, symbol=[oSymbol1, oSymbol2 ... ]

and I get the following: http://picasaweb.google.com/kedmond/IDLImages?feat=directlin k

So, for example, it'd be nice if that group of spheres, the 'orb'
object, could rotate in an animation. That's what I'm trying to do.

And I guess Ken Bowman is saying that I need to learn how to use
iTools in order to be able to do this programmaticly.

By the way, I really appreciate everyone's responses! Thanks.

-Kazem

On Dec 31 2010, 4:25 pm, Paulo Penteado <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 31, 7:18 pm, kedmond <kedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the tip. Yeah, when I say from the command line I mean
>> I want to be able to configure and control things without a mouse so
>> that I can just copy-paste commands from a notes file into the CL.
>> For example, to turn off the axes in xplot3d, you have to go to the
>> View menu and select an Axes type from the sub-menu. Ideally, xplot3d
>> would be like plot in that you could just define the axes type as a
>> parameter.
>
> Those things can be done with iTools, but it will probably be easier
> with the new graphics (in this particular case, plot3d()). As I
> mentioned above, they have the rotate method, and the window contents
> can be either directly saved to files (save method) or copied to
> arrays (copywindow method). Or the graphics hierarchy could be
> retrieved and used to make a VRML file with IDLgrVRML, I suppose.

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		Re: screen capture of xplot3d By: penteado on Fri, 31 December 2010 13:25
		Re: screen capture of xplot3d By: kedmond on Fri, 31 December 2010 13:18
		Re: screen capture of xplot3d By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 30 December 2010 12:09
		Re: screen capture of xplot3d By: kedmond on Tue, 28 December 2010 08:34
		Re: screen capture of xplot3d By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 24 December 2010 06:47
		Re: screen capture of xplot3d By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 December 2010 21:24
		Re: screen capture of xplot3d By: penteado on Thu, 23 December 2010 21:06
		Re: screen capture of xplot3d By: kedmond on Sat, 01 January 2011 18:36

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