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Hi Everyone, Thinking about the IDV Applet topic again, my feature request to the IDV Developers is to be able to export IDV Views/Displays to Webgl in a similar fashion to Kitware's Paraview. Perhaps this type of feature could be coded as a plugin? Paul On 21 May 2013 01:17, Tom Whittaker <whittaker@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Bill > > First on my list would be the ability to simulate the probe display. I > would > > like to drag a probe over a map and have a graph adjust to the values at > the new > > location. > > > > Second on my list would be the ability to animate a map display, with > > "controls" for speed, frame omission, etc. > > As you may be aware, both of these are already available using the > FlAniS applet (see > <http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/flanis/examples/flanist10.html>). Of > course, you have to generate the images first and provide a suitable > colortable, complete with "calibration" information. > > One of the conceptual hurdles here is that the IDV display is > displaying the actual data [via the VisAD library] and not just an > image (gif, jpg, png, etc), so the "probe" is simply looking at the > display (data) values. That's why the FlAniS example, above, needs a > "calibration" table. If one wants to display the data, it means that > the values must be delivered to the "applet" (I'm using that term to > be an application that runs in a web browser -- now often called a > "web-app" or "WebApp") for display and probing. It also means that > the web-app needs to have all the rendering code (plot values, > contours, filling, surfaces, etc.) built in. > > > > > Third on my list would be the ability to use a globe display, not just a > > flat map display. > > I'm not even sure why people still use the flat-map displays ;-) > > tom > > -- > Tom Whittaker > University of Wisconsin-Madison > Space Science & Engineering Center (SSEC) > Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) > 1225 W. Dayton Street > Madison, WI 53706 USA > ph: +1 608 262 2759 > > _______________________________________________ > idvusers mailing list > idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ >
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