Archive for December, 2009
Monday, December 28th, 2009
AGU IDL Users Group Meeting
ITT VIS hosted a users group meeting at AGU to announce IDL 8.0. With over 40 IDL users in attendance, Bill Okuko, IDL Product Manager, gave an introduction to the major features while Chris Torrence, IDL Development Manager, provided the details. The main goals of this release are to “modernize and simplify” IDL. The features [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IDL,News by Michael Galloy
Monday, December 28th, 2009
Gravity wells on xkcd
xkcd has another great science-related comic today. Looking forward to the arrival of xkcd: volume 0 and mousepad for (a slightly late) Christmas!
1 Comment » - Posted in Visualization by Michael Galloy
Monday, December 14th, 2009
GMT color tables
The cpt-city website has a large collection of over 4,000 color tables (download of over 4,000 color tables). Unfortunately for us (i.e., me), they are all in the .cpt format used in GMT. Here’s a routine to read a .cpt file and return it as a 256 by 3 color table array: IDL> rgb = [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in IDL,Visualization by Michael Galloy
Friday, December 11th, 2009
Opening data at NASA
Wired has an article about an informal group of NASA insiders and outsiders trying to free NASA data: A bunch of data nerds from inside and outside NASA will gather at a house in Cupertino, California called the Rainbow Mansion this Saturday to hack through the agency’s data jungles. The event isn’t NASA-sponsored. None of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Data by Michael Galloy
Friday, December 4th, 2009
IDL at AGU
ITT VIS will be holding a IDL User Group Meeting at AGU this year on Wednesday December 16 starting at 5:00 pm. And, of course, they will also be in the exhibit hall at booth 821. Tech-X will also be in the exhibit hall with a couple IDL-related products: GPULib and the Remote Data Toolkit, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News by Michael Galloy
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Routines currently available in GDL
Alain Coulais has compiled a list of the IDL routines available in GDL. The table is shown shrunken and turned on its side below: Grey lines are missing routines, green are coded internally in C++, and gold are reimplemented in .pro code. The table does not include the WIDGET_*, CW_*, QUERY_*, or MESH_* routines.
