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Article #180Re: Hedgehog,Streamlines, et. al.
From: Wes Bethel
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:40
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:40
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In article <1992Nov11.182829.13248@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> larryg@avs.com (Larry Gelberg) writes: >There is no 'straight-forward' way of doing what you're looking for >because of all the squid-brained restrictions on field data types >that hedgehog imposes on both the input field as well as the sampler >field, but here is an ugly work-around for you. > There is a way cool module at the IAC called "show flow", courtesy of Phil McDonald (NOAA/ERL/Forecase Systems Lab) which has no such input restrictions (at the expense of some of the flexibility gained by using the samplers module), does a pretty good job of generating vector glyphs. It is a pain in the wazoo to compile though, what with subdirectories and libraries and what-not. I recently used this module as part of a visualization of turbulence in a combustion experiment (I finally get to get that pyro-tech bug out of my system!!! ;-) ;-). It works great. wes
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!overload.lbl.gov!ux6.lbl.gov!wes From: wes@ux6.lbl.gov (Wes Bethel) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs Subject: Re: Hedgehog,Streamlines, et. al. Date: 13 Nov 1992 16:40:03 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1e0lp3INNrjh@overload.lbl.gov> References: <1992Nov10.162529.22316@rtpnc.epa.gov> <1992Nov11.182829.13248@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> Reply-To: wes@ux6.lbl.gov (Wes Bethel) NNTP-Posting-Host: ux6.lbl.gov