Re: [ferret_users] wire or ppl view or vis5D

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Emilie,
The WIRE command is the Ferret call that gives us access to "PPLUS 
view".  3-dimensional plots in Ferret are limited to this one 
capability; other software package are really needed to do much with 3-D 
plots.  For a simple example of calling the WIRE command see the script

yes? go wire_frame_demo.jnl

Have you tried the writev5d function in Ferret, to write a vis5d file 
from your data?  There is a page under the on-line demonstrations 
section of our web pages, 
http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/Ferret/Demos/ef_wv5d_demo/ef_wv5d_demo.html

and also a demo script

yes? go ef_wv5d_demo.jnl

And, yes your point about the documentation for pplus commands in the 
Ferret documentation is very true.  We've included the pplus 
documentation in its entirety, but much of what is there is not directly 
applicable to PPLUS as it's used from Ferret.  This is on our long list 
of work that needs to be done!

Ansley

Emilie Vanvyve wrote:

> Hi again everybody,
>
> I have discovered this morning the WIRE command and the PPLUS view command. It seems to be 
> possible to draw 3D plots with Ferret then. Does anybody have any experience with these?
> I searched the mail archive and couldn't find anything. The help about PPLUS view in the PPLUS 
> user guide is quite poor. Would it be possible to get plots slightly similar to the ones Vis5D can 
> produce? I tried in the past to convert my NetCDF files into a format that Vis5D can read, it has 
> never worked.
>
> Thanks for any comment on this,
>
> Emilie
>
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