GEOMETRY commands


PROGRAM NAME

gcuberille - Volume Visualization using Geometric Icons.

DESCRIPTION

This method of volume visualization will place a cube icon at each grid location in a volume of data, color coding the vertices of the cube according to the value of the grid vertices. The size of the cubes (in relation to the size of the grid block they are used to represent) may be scaled down so that one can "see through" the volume of data. This is a way to visualize three dimensional data. The visualization colormap (created with ggencmap or some other tool) is used to specify data-to-color mapping.

The volume data accepted by this code must consist of scalar value data and either curvilinear or uniform location data (support for rectilinear data will be online in a future release).

The output from this code is geometry which may then be rendered using rmonster.

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS

-i
type: infile
desc: input 3d data object
-cmap
type: infile
desc: input vis colormap
-o
type: outfile
desc: Resulting output data object

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS

-shrink
type: float
desc: ratio of cuberille size to grid block size.
default: 1
bounds: 0 < [-shrink] < 1
-name
type: string
desc: object name
default: cuberille

EXAMPLES

kmakecmap -> cuberille -> rmonster

SEE ALSO

kmakecmap - to create a visualization colormap.

RESTRICTIONS

REFERENCES

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1996,1997 , The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.