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- From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
- Subject: Re: Contour plotting wanted:
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.023249.13102@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Nov6.224446.3687@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 02:32:49 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <1992Nov6.224446.3687@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
- > 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:
- >
- > 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 <=
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- We use coXist on our color Next to access Spyglass on a remote Sun. The
- only module of Spyglass available for the Sun at present is a buggy
- version of Transform.
-
- Meanwhile I called Spyglass and asked them about porting to the Next. They
- said they were thinking about it. Pressure from the Next community on them
- would help speed this cogitating up I think.
-
- BTW they DID say they might do a quick port to the Next for Nexts running
- coXist. They told me they didn't know the Next had an X-windows
- development environment until I told them about it (they can do ports to
- Unix X-machines in 1 month).
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Greg Colello
- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
- Stanford University
- gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu
-