Comments on: Who would have thought it? http://xyloid.org/2006/02/23/who-would-have-thought-it/ The world from a mathematician's perspective Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:47:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dave http://xyloid.org/2006/02/23/who-would-have-thought-it/#comment-95 Dave Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:59:53 +0000 http://xyloid.org/wptest/2006/02/23/who-would-have-thought-it/#comment-95 Well, that's a good way of doing it. However, my problem was actually finding a piece of 3D graphics software that would deal with the 50MB+ of data being generated by my program. In the end, I found another program which was unrelated all of the stuff I mentioned here, called <a href="http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/" rel="nofollow">GMT</a>. It's officially a map-creating program used for stuff like topological maps, but it suits my purposes greatly. If you want to have a look at one of the plots I outputted, have a look <a href="http://xyloid.org/plot3-1.png" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It's looking quite nice now. The process, for those that are interested, is to output as (x, y, z) co-ordinates, then use the xyz2grd program to convert this to a GRD format file. It's then a simple matter of creating a colour map and intensity file, then running grdview to produce the final output. It comes out as something like a 20mb PostScript file in the end, but I decided to convert this (using ImageMagick) to a PNG which is the one you see before you. PDF output of my LaTeX file looks superb, so no complaints from me. Well, that’s a good way of doing it. However, my problem was actually finding a piece of 3D graphics software that would deal with the 50MB+ of data being generated by my program. In the end, I found another program which was unrelated all of the stuff I mentioned here, called GMT. It’s officially a map-creating program used for stuff like topological maps, but it suits my purposes greatly.

If you want to have a look at one of the plots I outputted, have a look here. It’s looking quite nice now.

The process, for those that are interested, is to output as (x, y, z) co-ordinates, then use the xyz2grd program to convert this to a GRD format file. It’s then a simple matter of creating a colour map and intensity file, then running grdview to produce the final output. It comes out as something like a 20mb PostScript file in the end, but I decided to convert this (using ImageMagick) to a PNG which is the one you see before you. PDF output of my LaTeX file looks superb, so no complaints from me.

]]> By: Cap'n Refsmmat http://xyloid.org/2006/02/23/who-would-have-thought-it/#comment-94 Cap'n Refsmmat Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:56:37 +0000 http://xyloid.org/wptest/2006/02/23/who-would-have-thought-it/#comment-94 If you find any 3d graphing software, can't you export as PNG and use convert to make an EPS? If you find any 3d graphing software, can’t you export as PNG and use convert to make an EPS?

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