NAME
grdview - Create 3-D perspective grayshaded/colored image or mesh from
a 2-D grd file
SYNOPSIS
grdview relief_file -Jparameters [ -Btickinfo ] [-Ccptfile] [
-Eview_az/view_el ] [ -Gdrapefile] [ -Iintensfile] [ -K ] [ -L[flags] ]
[ -Nlevel[/r/g/b]] [ -O ] [ -P ] [ -Qtype ] [
-Rwest/east/south/north/zmin/zmax[r] ] [ -Ssmooth ] [ -T[s] ] [
-U[/dx/dy/][label] ] [ -V ] [ -Wtype/pen ] [ -Xx-shift ] [ -Yy-shift ]
[ -Zzlevel ] [ -ccopies ]
DESCRIPTION
grdview reads a 2-D gridded file and produces a 3-D perspective plot by
drawing a mesh, painting a colored/grayshaded surface made up of poly-
gons, or by scanline conversion of these polygons to a rasterimage.
Options include draping a data set on top of a surface, plotting of
contours on top of the surface, and apply artificial illumination based
on intensities provided in a separate grd file.
relief_file
2-D gridded data set to be imaged (the relief of the surface).
-J Selects the map projection. Scale is UNIT/degree, 1:xxxxx, or
width in UNIT (upper case modifier). UNIT is cm, inch, or m,
depending on the MEASURE_UNIT setting in .gmtdefaults, but this
can be overridden on the command line by appending the c, i, or
m to the scale/width value.
CYLINDRICAL PROJECTIONS:
-Jclon0/lat0/scale (Cassini)
-Jjlon0/scale (Miller)
-Jmscale (Mercator - Greenwich and Equator as origin)
-Jmlon0/lat0/scale (Mercator - Give meridian and standard paral-
lel)
-Joalon0/lat0/azimuth/scale (Oblique Mercator - point and
azimuth)
-Joblon0/lat0/lon1/lat1/scale (Oblique Mercator - two points)
-Joclon0/lat0/lonp/latp/scale (Oblique Mercator - point and
pole)
-Jqlon0/scale (Equidistant Cylindrical Projection (Plate Car-
ree))
-Jtlon0/scale (TM - Transverse Mercator, with Equator as y = 0)
-Jtlon0/lat0/scale (TM - Transverse Mercator, set origin)
-Juzone/scale (UTM - Universal Transverse Mercator)
-Jylon0/lats/scale (Basic Cylindrical Projection)
AZIMUTHAL PROJECTIONS:
-Jalon0/lat0/scale (Lambert).
-Jelon0/lat0/scale (Equidistant).
-Jflon0/lat0/horizon/scale (Gnomonic).
-Jglon0/lat0/scale (Orthographic).
-Jslon0/lat0/[slat/]scale (General Stereographic)
CONIC PROJECTIONS:
-Jblon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/scale (Albers)
-Jdlon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/scale (Equidistant)
-Jllon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/scale (Lambert)
MISCELLANEOUS PROJECTIONS:
-Jhlon0/scale (Hammer)
-Jilon0/scale (Sinusoidal)
-Jk[f|s]lon0/scale (Eckert IV (f) and VI (s))
-Jnlon0/scale (Robinson)
-Jrlon0/scale (Winkel Tripel)
-Jvlon0/scale (Van der Grinten)
-Jwlon0/scale (Mollweide)
NON-GEOGRAPHICAL PROJECTIONS:
-Jp[a]scale[/origin] (polar (theta,r) coordinates, optional a
for azimuths and offset theta [0])
-Jxx-scale[l|ppow][/y-scale[l|ppow]] (Linear, log, and power
scaling)
More details can be found in the psbasemap manpages.
-Jz Sets the vertical scaling (for 3-D maps). Same syntax as -Jx.
OPTIONS
No space between the option flag and the associated arguments.
-B Sets map boundary tickmark intervals; see the psbasemap man page
for details.
-C name of the color palette file. Must be present if you want (1)
mesh plot with contours (-Qm), or (2) shaded/colored perspective
image (-Qs or -Qi). For -Qs: You can specify that you want to
skip a z-slice by setting red = -; to use a pattern give red =
P|pdpi/pattern[:Fr/g/b[Br/g/b]].
-E Sets the view point by specifying azimuth and elevation in
degrees. [Default is 180/90]
-G Drape the image in drapefile on top of the relief provided by
relief_file. [Default is relief_file]. Note that -Jz and -N
always refers to the relief_file. The drapefile only provides
the information pertaining to colors.
-I Gives the name of a grdfile with intensities in the (-1,+1)
range. [Default is no illumination].
-K More PostScript code will be appended later [Default terminates
the plot system].
-L Boundary condition flags may be x or y or xy indicating data is
periodic in range of x or y or both, or flags may be g indicat-
ing geographical conditions (x and y are lon and lat). [Default
uses "natural" conditions (second partial derivative normal to
edge is zero).] If no flags are set, use bilinear rather than
the default bicubic resampling when draping is required.
-N Draws a plane at this z-level. If the optional r/g/b is pro-
vided, the frontal facade between the plane and the data perime-
ter is colored.
-O Selects Overlay plot mode [Default initializes a new plot sys-
tem].
-P Selects Portrait plotting mode [GMT Default is Landscape, see
gmtdefaults to change this].
-R west, east, south, and north specify the Region of interest. To
specify boundaries in degrees and minutes [and seconds], use the
dd:mm[:ss] format. Append r if lower left and upper right map
coordinates are given instead of wesn. This option may be used
to indicate the range used for the 3-D axes [Default is region
given by the relief_file]. You may ask for a larger w/e/s/n
region to have more room between the image and the axes. A
smaller region than specified in the relief_file will result in
a subset of the grid.
-Q Select one of three settings: 1. Specify m for mesh plot
[Default], and optionally append /r/g/b for a different mesh
paint [white]. 2. Specify s for surface plot, and optionally
append m to have mesh lines drawn on top of surface. 3. Specify
i for image plot, and optionally append the effective dpi reso-
lution for the rasterization [100]. For any of these choices,
you may force a monochrome image by appending g. Colors are then
converted to shades of gray using the (television) YIQ transfor-
mation.
-S Smooth the contours before plotting (see grdcontour) [Default is
no smoothing]
-T Plot image without any interpolation. This involves converting
each node-centered bin into a polygon which is then painted sep-
arately. Append s to skip nodes with z = NaN. This option is
useful for categorical data where interpolating between values
is meaningless.
-U Draw Unix System time stamp on plot. User may specify where the
lower left corner of the stamp should fall on the page relative
to lower left corner of plot. Optionally, append a label, or c
(which will plot the command string.). The GMT parameters
UNIX_TIME and UNIX_TIME_POS can affect the appearance; see the
gmtdefaults man page for details.
-V Selects verbose mode, which will send progress reports to stderr
[Default runs "silently"].
-Wc Draw contour lines on top of surface or mesh (not image). Append
pen attributes used for the contours. [Default: width = 3,
color = 0/0/0, texture = solid].
-Wm Sets the pen attributes used for the mesh. [Default: width = 1,
color = 0/0/0, texture = solid]. You must also select -Qm or
-Qsm for meshlines to be drawn.
-X -Y Shift origin of plot by (x-shift,y-shift). Prepend a for abso-
lute coordinates; the default (r) will reset plot origin.
-Z Sets the z-level of the basemap [0].
-c Specifies the number of plot copies. [Default is 1]
EXAMPLES
To make a mesh plot from the file hawaii_grav.grd and drawing the con-
tours given in the color palette file hawaii.cpt on a Lambert map at
1.5 cm/degree along the standard parallels 18 and 24, with vertical
scale 20 mgal/cm, and looking at the surface from SW at 30 degree ele-
vation, try
grdview hawaii_grav.grd -Jl18/24/1.5c -Chawaii.cpt -Jz0.05c -Qm -N-100
-E225/30 -Wc > hawaii_grav_image.ps
To create a illuminated color perspective plot of the gridded data set
image.grd, using the color palette file color.rgb, with linear scaling
at 10 cm/x-unit and tickmarks every 5 units, with intensities provided
by the file intens.grd, and looking from the SE, try
grdview image.grd -Jx10.0c -Ccolor.rgb -Qs -E135/30 -Iintens.grd >
image3D.ps
To make the same plot using the rastering option with dpi = 50, try
grdview image.grd -Jx10.0c -Ccolor.rgb -Qi50 -E135/30 -Iintens.grd >
image3D.ps
To create a color PostScript perspective plot of the gridded data set
magnetics.grd, using the color palette file mag_intens.cpt, draped over
the relief given by the file topography.grd, with Mercator map width of
6 inch and tickmarks every 1 degree, with intensities provided by the
file topo_intens.grd, and looking from the SE, try
grdview topography.grd -JM6i -Gmagnetics.grd -Cmag_intens.cpt -Qs
-E140/30 -Itopo_intens.grd > draped3D.ps
BUGS
For the -Qs option: PostScript provides no way of smoothly varying col-
ors within a polygon, so colors can only vary from polygon to polygon.
To obtain smooth images this way you may resample the grdfile(s) using
grdsample or use a finer grid size when running gridding programs like
surface or nearneighbor. Unfortunately, this produces huge PostScript
files. The alternative is to use the -Qi option, which computes bilin-
ear or bicubic continuous color variations within polygons by using
scanline conversion to image the polygons.
SEE ALSO
gmt(l), grdcontour(l), grdimage(l), nearneighbor(l), psbasemap(l),
pscontour(l), pstext(l), surface(l)
GMT3.4.6 1 Jan 2005 GRDVIEW(l)
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