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- From: watson@maths.uwa.oz.au (David Watson)
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- Subject: Re: Help - Contour drawing algorithm needed
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 04:33:54 GMT
- Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
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- tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya) writes:
-
- >Given a set of (x,y,t) points where (x,y) represent the cooridinate and
- >(t) represents the associated temperature, I need to draw temperature
- >contours over a specified region. Can someone suggest me an algorithm
- >to do this, or refer me to the right book(s).
-
- For a survey of interpolation methods for bivariate data -
-
- ftp cod.nosc.mil /pub/grid.ps
- ftp cod.nosc.mil /pub/grid.tex
- ftp cod.nosc.mil /pub/grid.ascii
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- The comments in this survey are extracted from the book
-
- CONTOURING: A Guide to the Analysis and Display of Spatial Data
- by David F. Watson ISBN 0 08 040286 0
- to be published by Pergamon Press in the last quarter of 1992.
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- For a FORTRAN program to interpolate and contour with linear triangle-
- based technique
- ftp garbo.uwasa.fi /pc/source/contour.f
-
- A gridding program that uses natural neighbor interpolation, NNGRIDR,
- is available commercially. Send email to me for details.
-
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- Dave Watson Internet: watson@maths.uwa.edu.au
- Department of Mathematics
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