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Re: plotting a vector field in 3d [message #85008 is a reply to message #85006]

Fri, 21 June 2013 09:34

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Michael Galloy writes:

> Check out this post:
>
> http://michaelgalloy.com/2008/03/19/overview-of-flow-visuali zation-in-idl.html

I agree the Flow3 example in the documentation sucks (sigh...), but it's
pretty easy to put axes around the flow:

vx = RANDOMU(seed, 5, 5, 5)
vy = RANDOMU(seed, 5, 5, 5)
vz = RANDOMU(seed, 5, 5, 5)

; Set up the 3D scaling system:
cgSurf, dist(30), xr=[-1,5], yr=[-1,5], zr = [-1,5], $
/nodata, xst=1, yst=1

; Plot the vector field:
!P.Color=cgColor('black')
FLOW3, vx, vy, vz

Now that I look at it, Flow3 sucks, too. :-)

There is probably a good Ph.D. thesis in here for someone who wants to
develop some useable software.

Cheers,

David

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		plotting a vector field in 3d By: Petros Syntelis on Fri, 21 June 2013 03:14
		Re: plotting a vector field in 3d By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 21 June 2013 09:01
		Re: plotting a vector field in 3d By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 21 June 2013 09:30
		Re: plotting a vector field in 3d By: David Fanning on Fri, 21 June 2013 09:34
		Re: plotting a vector field in 3d By: manodeep@gmail.com on Sun, 23 June 2013 18:23
		Re: plotting a vector field in 3d By: Krishnapriya M on Sun, 04 May 2014 21:46
		Re: plotting a vector field in 3d By: David Fanning on Mon, 05 May 2014 05:12
		Re: plotting a vector field in 3d By: Petros Syntelis on Wed, 26 June 2013 02:02

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