Relative Vorticity Contouring

[Dizzle Man]

Excellent!, I have tried option two and that works fine. There is one slight
issue though. Is it possible to remove the numbers that come up on the
display when I use contour plotting. They kind of get in the way when I am
observing my data. Also in option 1, what do the min and max represent in
set gxout stat?

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Austin Conaty <Austin.L.Conaty at nasa.gov>wrote:

> One possible solution is to
> 1) set gxout stat
> 2) loop through the data and capture min and max
> 3) using the min/max info, use the same set ccols and
>   set clevs commands before each display
> 4) set gxout shaded and plot.
>
> Or, if you're happy with the color and shading used in the first time
> period
> another possible solution is to
> 1) set t 1
> 2) set gxout shaded
> 3) d relvort
> 4) q shades
> 5) set ccols and set clevs according to info returned
>   by q shades.
>
>
> Eric Altshuler wrote:
>
>> That is odd because in my experience it is in animations that contouring
>> and color schemes can be ill-suited to the data being plotted. That's
>> because whatever contouring scheme is used (or chosen by grads) for the
>> first frame, is also applied to all the remaining frames so as to ensure the
>> same contouring scheme for the whole animation. This can be a problem,
>> though, if the data field being animated changes a lot during the animation
>> (e.g. a rapidly intensifying hurricane).
>>
>> When your are plotting each time step individually, grads chooses the
>> contouring/color scheme separately for each step unless you set it yourself.
>> In this situation, if the character of the data field changes significantly
>> in time, grads will choose new contouring schemes to suit the data at each
>> time step. The disadvantage here is that the contouring scheme is not
>> consistent across all frames. It's a tradeoff.
>>
>> How are you doing your animations? Are you setting T to vary and plotting
>> the variable, or have you set up a script loop to display one time step,
>> sleep for some interval, advance T and then display the next time step? The
>> behavior of animations using these two methods can be quite different.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dizzle Man" <selfscience06 at GMAIL.COM>
>> To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
>> Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2008 1:28:03 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: Relative Vorticity Contouring
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I am doing a plots for relative voricity [hcurl(u,v)].  The issue that I
>> am
>> having is when I run my animation I get a beautiful sequence of images, so
>> when I begin the plot each time step individually I do not receive that
>> same
>> contouring intervals that is displayed in the animation. Its like the
>> individual plotting loses coloring, but that animation gives me what I am
>> looking for. Does this make sense? I was wondering how can I maintain the
>> color sequence that the animation gives for individual time step plotting?
>>
>>
>>
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