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5.1.4 Isosurface Control
Overview

Isosurfaces can be made in two types of displays, regular isosurfaces, and isosurfaces colored by another field. An isosurface is a 3D surface mapping the location of a single parameter value through a 3D field. Isosurfaces are a 3D analog of a single contour line in a 2D plot; the intersection of an isosurface and any plane is a contour line of the same value in that plane.

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You can request an isosurface colored with a range of colors, where colors indicate the values of another field, not the one used to make the shape of the surface. A common use is to color isosurfaces by height (geopotential height in some grid output) to show height of features above the surface by color.

Properties

 


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