Georg Muntingh wrote: > I haven't tried it before, but I sneaked a peek and tried to extract > the most important information from the website. > > * The program seems to take a discretized vector field as input, and > creates images from these. > * Its functionality seems to be > - to plot pretty arrows that have a width, size and colour, and are > curved along the vector field; > - to plot ellipses, which have something to with how much space > there would be between arrows. > - has two placement strategies for the arrows: > 1. hedgehog: the arrows are placed on a regular rectangular grid; > 2. adaptive: the arrows are placed with a molecular dynamics > (Lennard-Jones) simulation of their bounding ellipses. > - to make animations of these > * It is a command line tool. > * The output is in PostScript.
which can be converted to SVG, PDF and other vector formats with standard tools. The files are small, typically a few tens of kilobytes. > * The input can be > SAG : a simpel ASCII grid; > GRD2: a pair of GMT(1) grd (netCDF) files representing the > components of the vector field; > GFS : a simulation file from the Gerris flow solver. See: http://gfs.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Jaap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
