hmmm, I've seen data like this before (and wrote a program to reorder it!)
Your data is very logically organized, however it doesn't match the logical order expected by DX. You can use regular connections (using Construct to create a grid of m x n x p points, and then extracting *those* connections and inserting them into your field); however you're going to have to reorder those points first, I'm afraid (and I will be corrected if I'm wrong). In each dimension, they need to go from one side to another, and then *not* loop back going the other direction. Think of a typewriter when you get to the end of the line; hit return and start again at the left side. This should be the case in all three dimensions. If your data was like that, all would be happy. Donna L. Gresh, Ph.D. Visual Analysis Group IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (914) 784-5049 http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/donnagresh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 12/20/2001 02:30:23 PM Please respond to [email protected] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] cc: Subject: [opendx-users] how to add connections to 3d-data After numerous sleepless nights I finally give up and ask you for help. With the help of Donna (thanks again) I succeeded in importing a set of data with ImportSpreadsheet. "x" "y" "z" "b" 0 0 0 100 0 0 1 103 ... 0 0 10 -98 0 1 10 -95 0 1 9 -99 ... It's organized into columns and imported with ImportSpreadsheet. I know the field misses 'connections' but I can't figure out how to add these. I attached a jpeg image from my data. The way it is measured is shown by 'ShowConnections'. The x-axis is from bottom to top. The z-axis is from left to right (red to blue) I understand Connections should be integers pointing to the nth-element of the data. But how can I make cubic connections in this dataset. Do I have to sort the data first ? Larry de Graaf (Embedded image moved to file: pic19481.pcx)
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