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Re: Clipping shade_surf [message #87006 is a reply to message #87005]

Thu, 19 December 2013 08:51

David Fanning
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e.grono@live.ca writes:

> It doesn't take anything too complicated to demonstrate.
> z=dist(100)
> shade_surf,z,ax=90,az=0,xrange=[40,60],xstyle=1,clip=[40,0,6 0,100],noclip=0
> I just want to crop out what goes outside the axes.
>
> How it works with surface:
> surface,z,ax=90,az=0,xrange=[40,60],xstyle=1
> surface,z,ax=90,az=0,xrange=[40,60],xstyle=1,clip=[40,0,60,1 00],noclip=0
>
> I could just chop out the data I don't want from the array I'm plotting but the resolution of my data set is low enough that when I force the x and y ranges I want I end up with little bars of empty space where there is no data.

Yes. I doubt you are going to be able to do this.

I think you might be better off to do something like this:

cgplot, [1], xrange=[40,60], yrange=[0,100], /nodata
cgimage, z, xrange=[40,60], yrange=[0,100], /overplot, /scale

That seems to give you the same thing, but you don't have to worry about
clipping the surface. If you wanted the shading to be Gouroud shading,
you could recover the image from Shade_Surf (I would use cgSurf), and
use that with cgImage, I suppose. The point is, cgImage will clip the 2D
array for you, given the current range of the axes.

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
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		Clipping shade_surf By: e.grono on Thu, 19 December 2013 07:49
		Re: Clipping shade_surf By: David Fanning on Thu, 19 December 2013 08:14
		Re: Clipping shade_surf By: e.grono on Thu, 19 December 2013 08:28
		Re: Clipping shade_surf By: David Fanning on Thu, 19 December 2013 08:51
		Re: Clipping shade_surf By: e.grono on Mon, 30 December 2013 16:04

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