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| * anaglyph (red-blue) stereoscopic support on 2-d monitors; and | * anaglyph (red-blue) stereoscopic support on 2-d monitors; and | ||
| * digital domes, including fish-eye and [http://vr.swin.edu.au MirrorDome] solutions. | * digital domes, including fish-eye and [http://vr.swin.edu.au MirrorDome] solutions. | ||
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| + | Our philosophy on advanced displays is simple: make it really easy for programmers/users to access the extra visualisation capabilities of advanced displays without having to significantly change your code, data format, or visualisation package. In S2PLOT, this is achieved through the s2open commands: | ||
| + | * [[Function:s2open | s2open]] | ||
| + | * [[Function:s2opend | s2opend ]] | ||
| + | * [[Function:s2opendo | s2opendo ]] | ||
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| + | For programmers with experience using PGPLOT, these commands are very similiar to the PGOPEN function. The main difference is that PGPLOT supports graphic file devices (such as Postscript images) along with window-based plots, whereas S2PLOT displays are all interactive. To create a static image from an S2PLOT code, you can press the F10 key (see [[S2PLOT:Controls | here]] for details). | ||
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S2PLOT and support for Advanced Displays
S2PLOT has been developed with users of both standard and advanced displays in mind. What is an advanced display? Anything that is more complex than a standard two-dimensional monitor or data projector. This includes:
- desktop and large-scale stereoscopic displays (both active and passive systems);
- anaglyph (red-blue) stereoscopic support on 2-d monitors; and
- digital domes, including fish-eye and MirrorDome solutions.
Our philosophy on advanced displays is simple: make it really easy for programmers/users to access the extra visualisation capabilities of advanced displays without having to significantly change your code, data format, or visualisation package. In S2PLOT, this is achieved through the s2open commands:
For programmers with experience using PGPLOT, these commands are very similiar to the PGOPEN function. The main difference is that PGPLOT supports graphic file devices (such as Postscript images) along with window-based plots, whereas S2PLOT displays are all interactive. To create a static image from an S2PLOT code, you can press the F10 key (see here for details).
