You mean the part about OpenDX being so ugly ;)

On 5 May 2014 14:52, Troels Emtekær Linnet <tlin...@nmr-relax.com> wrote:
> Cheers !
>
> I put it at the wiki, as a How-to.
>
> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/Dx_map#How_to_for_relax_disp
>
> 2014-05-05 14:31 GMT+02:00 Edward d'Auvergne <edw...@nmr-relax.com>:
>> Hi Troels,
>>
>> You are correct that OpenDX is ugly!  It's quite old software and it
>> uses and ancient GUI widget set - Motif.  Despite this, the software
>> is incredibly powerful for visualising optimisation spaces (among
>> other things).  It is especially useful for showing why certain models
>> or optimisation fails.
>>
>> Anyway, the way I run this is:
>>
>> - Run 'dx',
>> - Click on 'Edit Visual Programs...',
>> - Select the map.net program created by relax,
>> - Now I'm getting unrecognised comment errors - strange, I've not seen
>> that before :S.  I'm using OpenDX 4.4.4 for Linux, so that's probably
>> the difference.  Note the files you have attached are not those
>> directly from relax, you must have saved in your OpenDX version.
>> - Select the menu entry 'Execute->Execute on change'.
>>
>> That's it.  I now have a 3D frame, but nothing in it.  Therefore the
>> contour levels must be too low or high.  From the map file, the values
>> are in the hundreds of thousands.  Then:
>>
>> - In the main program window, double click on the 'Isosurface elements'.
>> - Change the values until you see surfaces.  In the first the value is
>> 500.  I changed this to 500,000.
>> - In the second, 100 -> 100,000.
>> - In the third, 20 -> 20,000.
>> - In the last, 7 -> 7,000.
>>
>> This should maybe be performed by the dx.map user function,
>> determining reasonable contour levels, but I have never implemented
>> this.  Anyway, now I have a proper plot.  With a bit of zooming,
>> clicking on 'File -> Save image' in the "Surface" window, "allowing
>> rendering", and outputting to a large TIFF file, "save current", then
>> "apply", I have the image cropped and converted to PNG in the GIMP at
>> https://gna.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=20641.  Note that for a good
>> resolution plot, you will need many more increments.  Using the lower
>> and upper dx.map arguments will be useful to zoom into the space.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Edward
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5 May 2014 01:58, Troels E. Linnet <no-reply.invalid-addr...@gna.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> Follow-up Comment #4, bug #22012 (project relax):
>>>
>>> Hi Edward.
>>>
>>> Can you run this map?
>>>
>>> I bought OpenDX (25$) from http://vizsolutions.com/.
>>>
>>> And new I have these 4 files.
>>>
>>> But the program is maybe the ugliest in the World!
>>> And I don't know how get a image?
>>>
>>> Can you run this?
>>>
>>>
>>> (file #20637, file #20638, file #20639, file #20640)
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