I'm afraid that's what I thought. We have the situation here in Mulu where the main passages are 50m wide with house sized boulders with side passages a mere 5m wide and small car size boulders so ideally we need a mixture of block sizes to play with. And of course chambers the size of football fields.
On 31 Dec 2008, at 19:00, therion-request at speleo.sk wrote: > Send Therion mailing list submissions to > therion at speleo.sk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > therion-request at speleo.sk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > therion-owner at speleo.sk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Therion digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Using metapost code examples (Stefan Oswald) > 2. Re: Using metapost code examples (Martin Budaj) > 3. Re: Using metapost code examples (Wookey) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:01:17 +0100 > From: "Stefan Oswald" <stefan_oswald at gmx.at> > Subject: Re: [Therion] Using metapost code examples > To: therion at speleo.sk > Message-ID: <20081230120117.233970 at gmx.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > The size is controlled by the factor before the u. > (symbolsize:=1.0u; %Factor*u; Factor=size of the blocks change 1.0 > as you want) >> Does this apply to each instance of a block or is it a >> global definition. > This overrules the point_block sizes in the whole plan compiled. > Size canging/definition of a single block is, as far as i know, not > possible and not projected? > > The problem was (with other symbols it is still the case, a solution > could be, for example an layout command for small symbols) that with > small caves in small scales the normative symbol size is too large, > so it might happen that you only see a small part of the symbol in a > narrow passage on small scale. > You can handle this problem with block_points and block_area in UIS > as in described in wiki by changing the factor before the "u". > > Gl?ck Tief, Stefan > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- >> Datum: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:00:01 +0100 >> Von: therion-request at speleo.sk >> An: therion at speleo.sk >> Betreff: Therion Digest, Vol 37, Issue 14 > >> Send Therion mailing list submissions to >> therion at speleo.sk >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> therion-request at speleo.sk >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> therion-owner at speleo.sk >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Therion digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Using metapost code examples (Dave Clucas) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:00:56 +0800 >> From: Dave Clucas <dave at daveclucas.com> >> Subject: [Therion] Using metapost code examples >> To: therion at speleo.sk >> Message-ID: <2CDC217E-E91E-4780-A35C-F6B719CC9D32 at daveclucas.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; >> DelSp="yes" >> >> Looking at the metapost examples in the Wiki it appears that a block >> symbol can be defined or redefined which allows the size of the block >> to be changed. Does this apply to each instance of a block or is it a >> global definition. How do you specify the size of the block when you >> place it in the drawing? >> >> code metapost >> def p_blocks_UIS (expr pos,theta,sc,al)= >> symbolsize:=1.0u; %Factor*u; Factor=size of the blocks >> U:=(.5u,.5u); >> T:=identity aligned al rotated theta scaled sc shifted pos; >> pickup PenC; >> thdraw (.0symbolsize,.0symbolsize)--(1.0symbolsize,-. >> 5symbolsize)--(0.0symbolsize,-1.5symbolsize)-- >> (-1.0symbolsize,-1.0symbolsize)--cycle; >> thdraw (.5symbolsize,-.25symbolsize)--(1.0symbolsize,. >> 5symbolsize)--(0.0symbolsize,1.5symbolsize)--(-0.5symbolsize,. >> 5symbolsize); >> thdraw (.0symbolsize,.0symbolsize)--(.0symbolsize,.5symbolsize)-- >> (-1.5symbolsize,.5symbolsize)--(-1.5symbolsize,-0.5symbolsize)-- >> (-0.5symbolsize,-0.5symbolsize); >> enddef; >> endcode >> >> >> >> Dave Clucas >> email:dave at daveclucas.com >> Website: http://daveclucas.com >> http://mycaves.org >> Skype: daveclucas >> >> >> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20081230/ea2e1e04/attachment.html >> >> > >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Therion mailing list >> Therion at speleo.sk >> http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion >> >> >> End of Therion Digest, Vol 37, Issue 14 >> *************************************** > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:19:32 +0100 > From: "Martin Budaj" <m.budaj at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Therion] Using metapost code examples > To: "List for Therion users" <therion at speleo.sk> > Message-ID: > <f64c1c4a0812300419x6a3e3d7ek1c2e3411c44a37d9 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >> Size canging/definition of a single block is, as far as i know, not >> possible and not projected? > > You can do it simply by using -scale xl option (or -scale s etc.) for > (almost) any point symbol. > >> The problem was (with other symbols it is still the case, a >> solution could be, for example an layout command for small symbols) >> that with small caves in small scales the normative symbol size is >> too large, so it might happen that you only see a small part of the >> symbol in a narrow passage on small scale. > > Try playing with base-scale layout option. It should address exactly > this issue. > > martin > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:57:46 +0000 > From: Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> > Subject: Re: [Therion] Using metapost code examples > To: therion at speleo.sk > Message-ID: <20081230225746.GO8858 at knossos.aleph1.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On 2008-12-30 13:19 +0100, Martin Budaj wrote: >>> The problem was (with other symbols it is still the case, a >>> solution could be, for example an layout command for small >>> symbols) that with small caves in small scales the normative >>> symbol size is too large, so it might happen that you only see a >>> small part of the symbol in a narrow passage on small scale. >> >> Try playing with base-scale layout option. It should address >> exactly this issue. > > Ah yes. I had this problem Dave. The Therion defaults are/were for > relatively small caves at 1:200 so our huge ones at 1:3000 need some > -base-scale and -scale options to be right. > > I'll get you my files so you can see the numbers I used. > > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: Balloonz - Toby Churchill - Aleph One - Debian > http://wookware.org/ > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion at speleo.sk > http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion > > > End of Therion Digest, Vol 37, Issue 15 > *************************************** Dave Clucas email:dave at daveclucas.com Website: http://daveclucas.com http://mycaves.org Skype: daveclucas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20081231/78416310/attachment.html>
