| Good-bye Contour Command [message #73554] |
Fri, 12 November 2010 07:17 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
I have nothing against the new graphics (other than
I think they are too complex to program and they make
my computer pay even less attention to me than the
faithful companion here at my feet, causing me to
retreat back to IDL 7 if I want to get on with it), but
I find I STILL rely on simple, fast traditional
graphics commands, like CONTOUR, to get my work done.
You may be like me. And, if so, you know how bad the
Contour command sucks. Only works in indexed color
mode, NLevels gives God only knows how many levels,
holes in your plots if you try to draw the contour
in PostScript, the list goes on and on.
What if you had a traditional contouring program that
actually worked? Would you use it?
Well, now you do. I got fed up fooling around with
contour plots earlier this week and just wrote the
darn thing. A contour plot command for the rest of
us, that works the way we do. On every machine and in
every version of IDL. Hurray!
The new FSC_Contour program is meant to do for the
Contour command what TVImage and ImDisp and all the
rest of the TV alternatives did for the TV command.
That is, make it completely obsolete.
You can read about it and see screen shots of some
of the things it can do here:
http://www.dfanning.com/graphics_tips/fsc_contour.pro
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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