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- From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: Contour plotting wanted:
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.224446.3687@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:44:46 GMT
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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.
- --
- => 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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