| Re: IDL Expert Programmers Convention Coming Up [message #9175 is a reply to message #9149] |
Tue, 10 June 1997 00:00  |
Andy Loughe
Messages: 174
Registered: November 1995
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David Fanning wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
>
> The Programming Committee of the IDL Expert Programmers
> Convention has asked me to come up with new criteria for
> being invited to this year's secret convocation of IDL masters.
> (Last year's question, you remember, was how many characters
> did the Execute command allow before it quit working?)
> Since RSI has fixed the Execute command we need something
> else.
>
> How would you feel about inviting anyone who could write
> a simple contour plot in object graphics in under 8 hours?
> I figure that is going to eliminate about 99% of the riffraff
> out there. :-)
>
> Has anyone seen this stuff? Unbelievable!
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> Andy Loughe is going to love this because he won't have
> to jump on RSI all the time about what a bad job they
> did with the contour command. He can write his own
> routine...from scratch...every time. This is exceedingly
> low-level stuff. You basically have to get the path
> information from the *old* contour command and then build
> your own contour plot, including all the axes, annotation,
> contour lines, etc.
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> I can't find any sensible way to label the contour intervals,
> so basically I was left with having to use color to indicate
> different levels. This in itself is maybe not so bad, but
> it certainly requires some kind of legend, which is nowhere to
> be found. Anyway, I have a contour plot working (without legends)
> and I'll put it up on my web page tomorrow. If someone would like
> to take this as a starting point and try to make something
> useful out of it, please be my guest. I'm moving on to something
> easier like trapezoidal tessellated volumes in Freudian n-space.
You're serious about having tackled this problem, aren't you!?
I can't wait to see your posting. Maybe I'll take the challenge,
but my day job always gets in the way! The best contour labelling
I have seen is in a package called GrADS. Most people here have
moved to this FREEWARE package for obvious reasons, read: FREEware.
Stop by for a demo sometime! We're at 28th and Arapahoe.
> BTW, I won't be attending the IDL Expert Programmers Convention
> this year because...er, well, because I'll be out of town. :-(
Apparently you have been invited because most of us do not
even know the date and time of this exclusive meeting! ;-)
Congratulations!!!
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Andrew F. Loughe |
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