3D rendering

[Henrique Barbosa]

Dear Randy,

Grads can't display a 3D view of a field. You may want to contact
grads developers to see if it is going to be available in version 2.0.

In the mean time you can try Vis5D, its a pretty old software but
it works very well. You can even do a 3D animation and slice it
in an arbitrary x/y/z direction.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis5d.html
http://vis5d.sourceforge.net

The tar ball comes with an example of how to convert
grads/binary to vis5d+/binary format. It is not completely
read for use but you can figure it out. I have added some
extra options to my personal version of this converter.
I can send it to you if you want it.

[]'s
Henrique


On Dec 11, 2007 11:21 AM, northrop grumman <sleetwx at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have been reading emails regarding 5D capabilities in GrADS. Is there a
> version of grads which will allow rendering of a 3D field such as cloud
> water from a NWP as opposed to looking at only a 2D plan view. I have tried
> using IDV from unidata but the 32-bit java is getting in the way.
>
> thanks,
> randy
>
>
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