Hi Ken-
thanks for looking into this. We're going to evaluate these changes to
see if it makes sense to roll them into VisAD.
Don
On 8/8/13 1:30 PM, Ken Ellinwood wrote:
It turns out that anti-aliasing is not the problem. There were two
things I did to get better arrow heads, and I've attached the before and
after images. Note that I also switched to coloring the arrows using
"One value colored by another"
First, I extended the length of the arrow head lines by setting
BACK_SCALE to -0.35f on line 2664 of ShadowType.java. This provided a
moderate improvement since more pixels were being drawn for the arrow
head, but the heads on horizontally oriented flow vectors were still
didn't look like the heads on the vertically oriented vectors.
Second, and more importantly, I increased the amount of Y offset for the
perpendicular component of the arrow head ends by the X aspect ratio
value for the display. My display has the aspect ratio values of X=2.3,
Y=1.0, Z=0.4. Lines 2743 to 2746 became:
a0 += PERP_SCALE * f1;
a1 -= PERP_SCALE * f0 * 2.3;
b0 -= PERP_SCALE * f1;
b1 += PERP_SCALE * f0 * 2.3;
This fixes the difference in appearance between the horizontally and
vertically oriented arrow heads.
Finally, I switched the arrows to "One value colored by another" so they
could be colored relative to the underlying view, for a subtler look.
Ken
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*From:* Don Murray (NOAA Affiliate) <don.murray@xxxxxxxx>
*To:* idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 31, 2013 8:54 AM
*Subject:* Re: [idvusers] Better flow vector arrow rendering, how?
Hi Ken-
I was hoping someone else would answer your question. ;-) I think the
main issue is anti-aliasing. The vector is just 3 lines (2 for the
arrow head, 1 for the arrow shaft). You could also try setting the line
width so the aliasing is not as much of a factor.
An alternative to changing the VisAD code would be to create your own
DataRenderer and override the getDataRenderer method of
ucar.visad.display.FlowDisplayable. That's what I did to change the
default behavior of WindBarbDisplayable.
There are examples of other flow DataRenderers (e.g. SwellRendererJ3D())
in the visad.bom class.
Don
On 7/31/13 12:16 PM, Ken Ellinwood wrote:
> Answering my own question... the relevant code appears to be in
visad.ShadowType.makeFlow(). I'll switch to the visad mailing list for
anything else on this issue.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> ________________________________
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> To: "idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
<idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 3:32 PM
> Subject: [idvusers] Better flow vector arrow rendering, how?
>
>
> See the attached image which shows wind speed in a colored filled
contour display and the wind direction via a vector plan view. I'm
hoping to get better quality arrow rendering in the vector plan view.
When the arrows are oriented horizontally the arrow heads disappear and
I'm hoping to fix this somehow, even if it means modifying the code.
I've got the IDV, Visad, and NetCDF code for the the 4.0u1 release
loaded into my IDE. I've been searching and setting breakpoints hoping
to figure out where the arrows are rendered, but haven't stubled up on
it yet. Any clues?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
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