Hi Don,
After some further thought, perhaps I am not taking the best approach.
Even if one is content with folds rendered as discontinuities on a 2d grid,
any mapping algorithm will still have to decide which part of the fold to
ignore.
Thanks again for your help,
Paul
On 11 December 2013 07:51, Don Murray (NOAA Affiliate)
<don.murray@xxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Paul-
>
> There is no easy way/method. Even using Gridded3DSet is not simple
> because you would need to pass the grid domain through all the logic in the
> VisAD methods that compute an appropriate Gridded3DSet for the computation.
>
> Don
>
>
> On 12/10/13 1:40 PM, Paul Graham wrote:
>
>> Hi Tom/Don,
>>
>> I had in mind to obtain the heights of the wet-bulb freezing level
>> surface, which is why I was thinking it would be nice if there was an
>> isosurface method that would return the heights of the surface. I think
>> all one can do with folded areas is be content with a discontinuity in
>> any 2d representation, though a discontinuity might not be the result of
>> a fold.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 11 December 2013 02:13, Don Murray (NOAA Affiliate)
>> <don.murray@xxxxxxxx <mailto:don.murray@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> All-
>>
>> Gridded3DSet would return you a geometry in VisAD coordinates and
>> you could then convert those to lat/lon/alt by running them through
>> the MapProjectionDisplay's coordinate system (fromReference), I
>> would presume. But tom's point is valid in that you can't always
>> map an isosurface to a 2D surface. Even a "simple" field like
>> temperature might have folds where there are inversions.
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>> On 12/10/13 8:08 AM, Tommy Jasmin wrote:
>>
>> On 12/10/13 8:52 AM, Tom Whittaker wrote:
>>
>> Paul -- I don't know of anything off-hand. One issue I see
>> is if
>> there is a fold in the isosurface, a 2D representation is
>> impossible.
>> For example, think of an isosurface of wind speed for, say,
>> the 40kt
>> isosurface -- they would be "tubes" and "bubbles"...
>>
>> tom
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Paul Graham
>> <meteorpaul@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:meteorpaul@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi IDV'ers,
>>
>> I'm interested to know if there is a way to extract an
>> isosurface
>> from a 3d
>> gridded field and store it as a 2d grid of isosurface
>> heights for
>> display
>> or other purposes, using an IDV Jython script?
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>> _________________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi guys - you are probably both aware but just to be sure, the
>> VisAD
>> Gridded3DSet
>> class does have methods to extract both isosurfaces and isolines :
>>
>> http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/__visad-docs/javadoc/visad/__
>> Gridded3DSet.html
>>
>> <http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/visad-docs/javadoc/visad/
>> Gridded3DSet.html>
>>
>>
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