MapToPlane Tutorial

The simplest network using MaptoPlane is one that wants to use a 2D representation of the 3D data in the visualization. The program would use an import module to get the data, MaptoPlane to convert the data into a 2d surface, an appropriate visualization module would then be used to visualize the data and image to display the resulting 2D visualization of 3D data.

Inputs :

DATA - 3d Field to be mapped to 2d.
POINT - A point on the map plane (normally the center of the object).
NORMAL - A vector which represents normal for the MaptoPlane.

Outputs :

PLANE - The 2d surface

Configuration Screen:

Example Program for MapToPlane:

This example program is used to convert data that would normally be be displayed as a 3D surface by isosurface as a contour map. The three dimensional data is imported using the import module, and is passed to MaptoPlane which takes an arbitrary cutting plane through the 3D data interpolating the values of the 2D field. The new 2D data is then passed to the isosurface module which then converts the data to a contour map. The resultant visualization is then displayed using the image module.

Source Code for MapToPlane:

plane.net source
plane.cfg config file

Sample Output fro MapToPlan:

Other Sources:

Isosurface Example program.