Surface Plotter - Menu Commands
Disabled Menus and Selections
Menus and selections that are not currently available are disabled and can not
be selected. Surface Plotter checks the version of the Java Virtual Machine
it is running on, and disables menus for functions that are not supported.
For example: if the Java Virtual Machine is of version older than 1.1, or
if Surface Plotter is running as an applet, Surface Plotter will disable the
"print" menu.
File
- Open ...
Opens a Surface Plotter file. This menu is not available when
running as an applet. (security restriction)
- Save
Saves a Surface Plotter file. This menu is not available when
running as an applet. (security restriction)
- Save As ...
Saves a user specified Surface Plotter file. This menu is not
available when running as an applet. (security restriction)
- Surface from Local Image File ...
Loads a local image file and creates a surface data from it.
The image is automatically converted to gray scale image and is treated
as a 2.5 dimension data file. Black is converted to the lowest z level
and white is converted to the highest z level. Surface Plotter displays
Image to Surface dialog box and lets
you enter conversion parameters before actually doing the conversion.
This menu is not available when running as an applet.
(security restriction)
- Surface from Network Image File ...
Loads an image from network and creates a surface data from it.
The image is automatically converted to gray scale image and is treated
as a 2.5 dimension data file. Black is converted to the lowest z level
and white is converted to the highest z level. Surface Plotter displays
Image to Surface dialog box and lets
you enter conversion parameters before actually doing the conversion.
- Print ...
Prints surface. This menu is not available when running as an applet
(security restriction) or when the version of Java Virtual Machine is
less than 1.1
- Exit/Close
Exits Surface Plotter (application) or closes the Surface Plotter frame
(applet)
Edit
- Stretch Z Levels ...
Stretches Z levels of current surface data to new ranges.
Surface Plotter displays Stretch Z dialog box
and lets you specify the stretching method and parameters before actually
doing the stretch.
Options
Menus that are in this group are all checkable menu items. You can
change a menu state by selecting the menu item. The following
describes a menu's function when it is checked:
- Show Bounding Box
Instructs Surface Plotter to draw a bounding box for surface plot.
- Show X-Y Mesh
Instructs Surface Plotter to draw the X-Y mesh of surface plot.
- Show Face Grids
Instructs Surface Plotter to draw face grids.
- Scale Bounding Box
Instructs Surface Plotter to scale bounding box to the proportion
of variable ranges. Note that when one variable range is far greater
than other variable ranges, Surface Plotter will not scale the
bounding box.
- Show X-Y ticks
Instructs Surface Plotter to show the ticks of X and Y axes.
- Show Z ticks
Instructs Surface Plotter to show the ticks of Z axis.
- Wireframe Mode
Instructs Surface Plotter to show a surface as wireframe model.
- Hidden Surface Elimination
Instructs Surface Plotter to eliminate invisible portions of a surface,
but not to shade the surface.
- Color Spectrum Mode
Instructs Surface Plotter to shade a surface with color function
that moves from violet to red as the z level increases.
- Gray Scale Mode
Instructs Surface Plotter to shade a surface with color function
that moves from black to white as the z level increases.
- Dual Shades Mode
Instructs Surface Plotter to shade surface of first function
with yellow and surface of second function with blue. The intensity
of the shading colors increase as the z level increases.
- Surface Plot
Instructs Surface Plotter to create surface plot of defined functions.
- Contour Plot
Instructs Surface Plotter to create contour plot of a function.
Only one function can be plotted in this mode, and the first function
has higher priority.
- Density Plot
Instructs Surface Plotter to create density plot of a function.
Only one function can be plotted in this mode, and the first function
has higher priority.
Help
- Menu Commands
Shows this menu commands help page.
- Function Syntax Reference
Shows function syntax reference page. Refer to this page if you had
problems with function definition.
- Parts of Surface Plotter
Shows a help page that describes the parts of Surface Plotter.
- Mouse Operations
Shows a help page that describes mouse operations.
- Surface Plotter Documentation
Shows Surface Plotter classes documentation page.
- System Information
Shows information about the system on which Surface Plotter is running.
Please select this menu and record all system information before
submitting a bug report.
- About
Shows a dialog box that displays Surface Plotter version, author, and
other information.
Send comments, suggestions, bug reports to
Yanto Suryono
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