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Re: m_map and GNU Octave for map projection aka sphere mapping
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David Bateman |
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Re: m_map and GNU Octave for map projection aka sphere mapping |
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Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:30:23 +0100 |
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Eric Chassande-Mottin wrote:
> [resent because of an oversized attachment]
>
>
> I have tried to use the package m_map to make
> map projection which you can get here:
> http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html
> See the site to get an idea of the types
> of available mappings. Those include Mollweide
> which I wanted.
>
> I have tested some of the
> demos scripts and the package works
> pretty much "out of the box" with octave 3.0
> and gnuplot 4.2. I give below a script that generates
> the Mollweide map of some function.
> the resulting plot looks good but it would be useful that
> "educated" users checks that it indeed makes
> sense.
>
> as far as I have seen, map projection is a missing
> feature of GNU Octave. so this is good news.
If you have gnuplot 4.2.2 as well you'll get tic marks and a scale on
the colorbar, without which its not much use..
D.