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- From: hwa@batman.asd.sgi.com (John Hwa)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
- Subject: Re: Newbie data question
- Message-ID: <1jpu0iINN754@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:55:14 GMT
- References: <43847@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
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- In article <43847@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, demers@cs.ucsd.edu (David DeMers) writes:
- |>
- |> So, I haven't used Explorer before, except once about
- |> a year ago when it was brand new. I'm finding it hard
- |> to get the answer out of the documentation (we didn't
- |> get any Explorer manuals with the upgrade to IRIX 4.0.1),
- |> for what should be a simple question. I have a data file
- |> consisting of four values per line;
- |> x-coord, y-coord, z-coord, datavalue.
- |>
- |> How do I get this into Explorer?
- |>
- |>
- |> I can probably write a GL program in a few days to
- |> do this, but seems like something Explorer should
- |> handle easily.
- |>
- |> Thanks for any pointers!
- |>
- |> Dave
- |>
- |> --
- |> Dave DeMers demers@cs.ucsd.edu
- |> Computer Science & Engineering C-014 demers%cs@ucsd.bitnet
- |> UC San Diego ...!ucsd!cs!demers
- |> La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 (619) 534-0688, or -8187, FAX: (619) 534-7029
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- In the ftp site, swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov (139.88.54.33), you can
- find some dscribe examples that are similiar to what you want.
- Look under the directory explorer/modules/Datascribe_Examples.
- Once you extract the files, the dscribe modules you want to look at
- is ReadXYZData.
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- John P. Hwa
- hwa@sgi.com
-