Re: UnionSet and Animation

• To: Jay Patel <jjpatel79@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: UnionSet and Animation
• From: Bill Hibbard <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:02:16 -0600 (CST)

Hi Jay,

Don't construct a FlatField. Just the FieldImpl, then put
your Gridded3DSets into it one at a time via the setSample()
method of FieldIMpl.

Good luck,
Bill

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Jay Patel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > > I have a UnionSet of Gridded3DSets like the DelaunayTest.java example.
> But I have one UnionSet for each time stamp. How would I animate all the
> UnionSets?
> >
> > Instead of combining your Gridded3DSets in a UnionSet,
> > put each Gridded3DSet as a different range sample of a
> > FieldImpl, with a domain Set that lists the time of each
> > Gridded3DSet.
> >
> > If your Gridded3DSet have MathType 'Set(x, y)', for
> > example, then your FieldImpl will have MathType:
> >
> >   (Time -> Set(x, y))
> >
> > You should use either Linear1DSet (if your times are in
> > arithmetic progression) of Gridded1DDoubleSet for your
> > times. See Test03.java and Test18.java in visad/examples
> > for examples of how to set time values in Sets. Note the
> > need for double precision to encode date and time in a
> > single value.
>
> This is the code that I have written ...
>
>  RealType[] time = {RealType.Time};
>  RealTupleType time_type = new RealTupleType(time);
>  RealTupleType xyz = new RealTupleType(x, y, z);
>  Gridded3DSet[] gsp = new Gridded3DSet[2];
>
>  FunctionType time_samples = new FunctionType(time_type,xyz);
>
>  DateTime base = new DateTime(1999, 122, 57060);
>  double start = base.getValue();
>  Set time_set = new Linear1DSet(time_type, start, start + 3000.0, ntimes1);
>
>  FieldImpl sequence = new FieldImpl(time_samples, time_set);
>
>  float[][] samples1 = new float[3][6];
>  samples1[0][0] = 291;
>  samples1[1][0] = 24;
>  samples1[2][0] = 255;
>
>  samples1[0][1] = 190;
>  samples1[1][1] = 92;
>  samples1[2][1] = 217;
>
>  samples1[0][2] = 261;
>  samples1[1][2] = 521;
>  samples1[2][2] = 232;
>
>  samples1[0][3] = 275;
>  samples1[1][3] = 943;
>  samples1[2][3] = 282;
>
>  samples1[0][4] = 276;
>  samples1[1][4] = 1051;
>  samples1[2][4] = 252;
>
>  samples1[0][5] = 273;
>  samples1[1][5] = 1460;
>  samples1[2][5] = 283;
>
>  gsp[0] = new Gridded3DSet(xyz, samples1,6);
>  FlatField anim = new FlatField(time_samples,gsp[0]); *****
>  sequence.setSample(1,anim);
>
>
> The error I get is:
> Exception in thread "main" visad.SetException: FieldImpl: set dimension 3
> and type dimension 1 don't match for the line *****
> FlatField anim = new FlatField(time_samples,gsp[0]);
>
> I am wondering what is happening ... I might have made a very big mistake
> somewhere but I really could not figure out putting the Gridded3DSet in
> FlatField. Can anyone help?
> Thanks,
> Jay
>
>

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