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Re: Contour plotting wanted:

#897
From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 22:44
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John McNeil writes
> I too moved from a mac to a NeXT and missed the Spyglass
> apps.
> 
> I have ported the NCSA HDF libraries (no big deal) to the
> NeXT and written an image viewing program.  It is not the
> full suite of spyglass stuff, but it will show raw byte,
> raw float, HDF ris8 and HDF sds 2d files.  It will also scale
> the image, show the pixel coordinates and value that you
> are pointing at, and give a histogram from which you can
> re-scale the image.  It will open tiff files, but the
> histogram stuff needs to be debugged here.  It will save
> tiffs as ris8 and vice-versa.
> 
> If there is some interest, I can probably release it to the
> public domain,
> 
> Let me know,
You wrote:
> I too moved from a mac to a NeXT and missed the Spyglass
> apps.
> 
> I have ported the NCSA HDF libraries (no big deal) to the
> NeXT and written an image viewing program.  It is not the
> full suite of spyglass stuff, but it will show raw byte,
> raw float, HDF ris8 and HDF sds 2d files.  It will also scale
> the image, show the pixel coordinates and value that you
> are pointing at, and give a histogram from which you can
> re-scale the image.  It will open tiff files, but the
> histogram stuff needs to be debugged here.  It will save
> tiffs as ris8 and vice-versa.
> 
> If there is some interest, I can probably release it to the
> public domain,
> 
> Let me know,
> 
>  
> -- 
> John
> jam@trg.saic.com
> NeXTmail preferred

Hmm.  Different meaning for contour.
When I said contour plots, I meant contour as in topographic map,  
weather isobar, etc.  

However, it would be really neat if the full spyglass stuff were  
available for the Next.
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=> Sherwood Botsford                   sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= 
=> University of Alberta         Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=         
=> tel:403 492-3713                             fax: 403 492-4256 <=         
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