<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>After the graphics stuff is done, we will begin implementing what we are now casually calling 'defop' -- operations on defined objects. The general idea is that you carve out a space in memory, and populate it with data or with results of operations on data, and those operations can be done by built-in or external functions. It won't be exactly like UDFs were in the old days, it'll be more much more flexible. </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On May 16, 2013, at 10:49 AM, <a href="mailto:senya@atmos.umd.edu">senya@atmos.umd.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Jennifer,<br>could you please update us on UDF capability that has been missing since<br>version 2. ( I am not asking about opengrads).<br></div></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thanks,<br>--Senya<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear All,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Brian and I are making good progress on getting GrADS 2.1 ready for alpha<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">testing. The graphics rendering with Cairo is very pretty, and the fonts<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are looking good too. We have transparent colors, anti-aliased lines,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">pattern filling, and more output options, including .png, .ps, .eps, .pdf,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and .svg. When using Cairo, the output files are bigger, and the rendering<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is a tiny bit slower -- those of you who care very deeply about this will<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">still have the option to use the current image rendering capabilities, so<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">please don't panic. Performance is very important to us too, and we are<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">doing all we can to keep GrADS lean and mean.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Yesterday I wrote some code and documentation on using pattern filling,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and today I am experimenting with the use of custom image tiles for the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">patterns. Here is my sample (900mb temperature forecast valid right about<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">now):<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We do not yet have a firm estimate for when a release will be ready, but I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">hope it will be during this summer. We are still writing code, and testing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it, and documenting it, and we will go through a period of using it<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">internally at COLA before going public.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--Jennifer<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jennifer M. Adams<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">IGES/COLA<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Calverton, MD 20705<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gradsusr mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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