Try specifying the glyph type explicitly see the glyph or autoglyph docs
for details. A linear glyph such as arrow should work if you have the
data as vector correctly (I think that is the default so there may be
something wrong with you data formating.

Use the debug>print command with options set to rd to check the data is
vector before you glyph it.

Peter



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Patnaude
Sent: 19 May 2005 18:42
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Subject: [opendx-users] simple plotting


Hi-

I'm trying to do something which intuitively ought to be quite simple:

I have a data file which looks like:
x_pos,y_pos,v_radial

The data is of ~ 450 ejecta knots in a supernova remnant (3c58 for the 
curious).  I basically want to make a 'kaboom' type 3-d distribution 
with the coords x,y,v_rad, since v_rad is effectively a measure of the 
z displacement from the center. The positions should be marked by an 
arrow which points radially away from (0,0,0), has a length 
proportional to the data, and optionally a color based on the value 
(bluer for positive, redder for negative values). Is this an easy thing 
to do? So far, all I've been able to do is:

ImportSpreadSheet->(Mark x 3, for each value)->Compute (to make a
vector)->Unmark->Autoglyph->Image

but this only makes a distribution of circles, which looks nice, but 
isn't quite what I have in mind.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Dan


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