Vis5D Documentation

Table of Contents

Overview of Vis5D

Vis5d+
Vis5D Documentation on the Web

System Requirements and Installation

System Requirements

Installing Vis5D

Mesa
NetCDF (optional)
Vis5d+
Manifest
Customizing

Putting Your Data Into Vis5D

Converting Your Data to v5d Format

Map Projections and Vertical Coordinate Systems

Map projections
Vertical coordinate systems

Special Variables and Data Values

User Defined File Formats

Getting Irregular Data into Vis5D

McIDAS 3D Grid Data Files

Putting Your Data into a McIDAS 3D Grid File
Using the McIDAS Utilities

Vis5D Utilities

Using Vis5D to Visualize Your Data

Starting vis5d

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The Control Panel

Controlling vis5d

Viewing Modes

Isosurfaces

Isosurface Color

Contour Line Slices
Colored Slices
Wind Vector Slices
Wind Stream Slices
Slice colors

Volume Rendering

Wind Trajectories

Wind Variables

Text Labels

Vertical Sounding and SkewT

Making New Variables

Cloned Variables
Type-in Formulas
External Analysis Functions

Saving Image Files and Printing

Texture mapping

Tcl scripting

Keyboard Functions

The Clipping Planes

The Display Widget Window

Changing the Number of Displays
Changing the Display Assignment of a Data Set
Changing the Parameters of a Display
Changing the 'Options' for a Display

Saving the current v5d file

Viewing Text Plots

Final Notes

The v5dimport Utility

Using v5dimport's graphical interface

Reading input grids
Selecting grids for output
Defining the output file
Making the output file
Miscellaneous

The v5dimport User Interface Embedded in Vis5D

Using v5dimport's text interface

Adding support for new file format

Notes on specific file formats

Sample Data Sets

Bob Schlesinger's thunderstorm simulation
LAMPS model
Example McIDAS files and utilities

Version History

Acknowledgments

License and Copyright

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