for spheres in a box try the following:
import
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show box autoglyph
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collect
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image
if the image seems strange, from the image window menu>options>reset
-randy
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> Randy,
>
> Thanks for your prior email. I followed your
> instructions (I think) and I get an image like this...
>
> http://starling.us/foo/opendx_image.png
>
> ...whereas I was figuring to see many points (or balls) floating
> in a cube. Where might I have gone awry? The rest makes sense
> but I don't understand the part where you said...
>
> import--mark"positions"--autocolor--image
>
> ...but used Select File from the first menu. Someone else had
> sent me a screenshot of balls-floating-in-cube which they had
> made with OpenDX via a .NET program. But alas I only know Perl.
>
> Using the data prompter, my file looks like this...
>
> file = /foo/rh_engmnt_sy01ds_preloaded_raw.dat
> > points = 4080
> > format = ascii
> > interleaving = record-vector
> > field = locations
> > structure = 3-vector
> > type = float
> > dependency = positions
>
> end
>
> Any clues how to get it to the balls-floating-in-box stage?
>
> TIA,
>
> Gan
>
>
> Randy Polson wrote:
> >
> > import--mark"positions"--autocolor--image
> >
> >
> > notes: point import to a .general file which contains the following text:
> > file = /foo/rh_engmnt_sy01ds_preloaded_raw.dat
> > points = 4080
> > format = ascii
> > interleaving = record-vector
> > field = locations
> > structure = 3-vector
> > type = float
> > dependency = positions
> >
> > end
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have ordered the book. But it will take some time to arrive. Meanwhile
> >>would someone be kind enough to hold my hand through my first 3-D
> >>scatter plot via OpenDX?
> >>
> >>I have data, N rows of 3 tab-delimited columns. The actual data set
> >>is here...
> >>
> >>http://starling.us/foo/rh_engmnt_sy01ds_preloaded_raw.dat
> >>
> >>Here are the plots I got from dplot and gnuplot...
> >>
> >>http://starling.us/foo/rh_engmnt_sy01ds_preloaded_dplot.png
> >>http://starling.us/foo/rh_engmnt_sy01ds_preloaded_gnuplot.png
> >>
> >>I blundered around and did not seem to accomplish much. What is the
> >>correct procedure please? I am running it on NetBSD 1.6.2 where it
> >>built and installed without a hitch. I'll buy the Win32 version if I
> >>can get it to work on NetBSD because I'm looking for a dual-OS
> >>solution to plotting.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Gan
> >>
> >>--
> >>
> >> Mistera Sturno - Rarest Extinct Bird
> >>
> >> <(+)__ Gan Uesli Starling
> >> ((__/)=- Kalamazoo, MI, USA
> >> `||`
> >> ++ http://starling.us
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Mistera Sturno - Rarest Extinct Bird
>
> <(+)__ Gan Uesli Starling
> ((__/)=- Kalamazoo, MI, USA
> `||`
> ++ http://starling.us
>
