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Re: plotting a vector field in 3d [message #85040 is a reply to message #84999]

Wed, 26 June 2013 02:02

Petros Syntelis
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On Friday, June 21, 2013 1:14:12 PM UTC+3, Petros Syntelis wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am trying to plot a vector field in 3d and i have great difficulty in doing so.
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> I have 3 variable, bx,by,bz that have (nx,ny,nz) dimentions which represent the vector field.
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> My questions are:
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> 1) How can i plot this vector field. I have tryied a variety of things (flow3 etc) i found online but all advices seems to lack some part of information and i fail to reproduce the results.
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> I also whould like a hint on how i could overplot those lines above an xy image on the bottom of the plot.
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> 2) Is there a way to trace the field lines and have, lets say 3 variables of dimentions (nlines,nx),(nlines,ny),(nlines,nz)?
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> 3) Because i am pretty sure that no answer whould be sufficient explanatory, as you can't explain everything in a group discussion, which book/references whould you recommend me to read?
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> Thank you very much,
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> Petros

I really thank you all for your answers! After reading Mike's article i got a little bit disappointed from the examples that use IDL routines.
But this paper you had on different techniques might prove to be usefull!

Thanks again,
Petros

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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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