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- WELCOME TO SURFACE DEMO
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- This demo shows a the graphic capabilities of a
- an IDL Object Graphics surface object. These include:
- - texture mapping,
- - point picking,
- - tracing,
- - masking (or transparency),
- - interactive change of orientation,
- - vertex coloring,
- - hiding.
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- You can rotate the surface by positioning the mouse
- in the draw widget, holding down the left mouse button,
- and dragging the mouse.
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- MENU OPTIONS
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- File Menu:
- Select "Quit" to exit the demonstration.
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- Options Menu:
- Select "Flat" or "Gouraud" from the "Shading"
- sub-menu to change the way IDL handles lightsource
- shading on the surface.
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- Select an option from the "Style" sub-menu
- to change the way the surface is rendered.
- Note that the "Lego Solid" option may take
- a few seconds to render.
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- Select a skirt height value from the "Skirt"
- sub-menu to choose between different values of
- the "skirt" that surrounds the object.
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- Select "Low," "Medium," or "High" from the
- "Drag Quality" sub-menu to change the way the
- surface is rendered during rotation. This setting
- does not affect the rendering quality of the
- surface when you are _not_ rotating it.
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- Select an option from the "Tracing" sub-menu
- to select a "region of interest" in the surface
- and then display only that region. To select
- a region, do the following:
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- i) Select "Trace Mode" (the menu item should
- change to "Trace Mode (on)"). This enables
- the tracing selection mode.
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- ii) Select one or more regions by clicking
- the right mouse button on the corners of
- the regions. The boundaries of the regions
- are indicated by red lines.
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- iii) Select "Trace Mask" (the menu item should
- change to "Trace Mask (on)"). The display
- now shows only the selected region.
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- iv) To remove the trace mask, select "Trace
- Reset" (the menu item should change to
- "Trace Reset (on)"). This removes the
- red lines marking your region of interest.
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- v) Select "Trace Mask" (the menu should change
- to "Trace Mask (off)"). This will redisplay
- the entire surface.
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- Select "Hidden" to remove points or lines that are
- "behind" other points or lines in the rendered
- surface. Hidden line removal is computationally
- expensive, and is not done by default. This option
- is only available if you have selected "Point,"
- "Wire," or "Lego Wire" from the Style sub-menu.
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- Select "Vertex Colored" to toggle the display between
- showing the surface with a specific color at each
- vertex and showing the surface in a single color.
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- Select "Texture Mapping" to toggle the overlay of
- an image on the solid surface.
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- Select "Line Style" to toggle the display between
- solid and dashed lines. This option not available
- when the surface is rendered as a solid or using
- points.
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- View Menu:
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- Select "Animate" to display a short animation of
- the surface being warped.
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- Select "Reset Orientation" to restore the surface
- to the original orientation in space.
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- About Menu:
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- Select "About Surface Objects" to display this help
- text.
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- FEATURES OF THE SURFACE DEMO
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- <<Minimum Slider>>
- Adjust this slider to select the minimum value
- to be rendered. Data smaller than this value will
- not be displayed.
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- <<Maximum Slider>>
- Adjust this slider to select the maximum value
- to be rendered. Data larger than this value will
- not be displayed.
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- <<Scaling slider>>
- Adjust this slider to scale the size of the surface
- between 75% and 125% of its original size.
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