Don Murray wrote:
Hi Reinoud-
Reinoud Bokhorst wrote:
(second try, the first post became somehow attached to a previous post)
Hi,
I am trying to make a vector plan view from (wave) directional data.
The direction field contains values in radians. So I created the
following new formula:
makeVector( sin(d*180/3.14159), cos(d*180/3.14159) )
When I apply this formula all goes well, i.e. I get to select the
direction field from my data source and the vector view control is
shown. It correctly shows that the vector values range from -1 to 1.
However, no vectors are shown in the view.. What am I doing wrong?
(IDV 2.7u2)
The problem is that the names of the derived fields end up the same
which confuses the display mapping. Change the name of one of the
fields using the newName procedure:
makeVector(newName( sin(d*180/3.14159),"U"),cos(d*180/3.14159) )
or for completeness, change them both:
makeVector(newName(sin(d*180/3.14159),"U"),newName(cos(d*180/3.14159),"V"))
Also, I found that setting the range in the control to -.1 to .1 makes a
better display.
Don
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Hi,
It is working now in the sense that vectors are being shown. But there is a problem when using custom lat/lon projections. It seems that the u-component is largely underestimated, i.e. my vectors always either point north- or southward.
To test this I defined another formula to make vectors with equal size u and v
components:
makeVector( a/a, newName(a/a, "v") )
I plotted this using 3 lat/lon projections (see attached image, zoomed in on
Gulf of Aden):
- predefined 'world'
- predefined 'arfica'
- custom
In all 3 cases the vectors point in a different direction (they tend to rotate
to the North).
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