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- From: mazz@ipac.caltech.edu (Joe Mazzarella)
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- Subject: Re: Contour plotting...
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 23:46:52 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- Dan Cook="uncle dan"=dcook@garnet.berkeley.edu writes:
-
- >I'm still looking for a contour plotting package... I have
- >gotten two possibles from several responses... contour and
- >gnuplot, both of which may be wonderful packages, but alas
- >they lack the ability to plot contours for a set of x,y,z
- >data which is not evenly spaced on a rectangular grid...
- >Part of my problem is that not all of my data is evenly
- >spaced, so I can't really get what I need from either of
- >these two programs... If anyone has any other ideas, please
- >let me know...
-
- If you are working on a UNIX workstation, I highly recommend The
- "Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)-SYSTEM plotting package
- by Paul Wessal & Walter Smith. This outstanding package solves many
- of the common gridding and map projection problems encountered when
- making contour/gray-scale maps and scatter plots. The "surface" program
- in GMT uses a continuous curvature gridding algorithm to grid arbitrarily
- spaced data like you describe. You can then use the "grdcontour" program
- to contour the data, not to mention many other useful plotting options.
- The reference they quote for the gridding algorithm used in GMT/surface is:
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- Smith, W. H. F, and P. Wessel, 1990, Gridding with continu-
- ous curvature splines in tension, Geophysics, 55, 293-305.
-
- You can obtain GMT via anonymous ftp from kiawe.soest.hawaii.edu
- (128.171.151.16). Good luck.
-
- -Joe Mazz
-