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Re: Q: contour levels from IDL



Mirko Vukovic (mvukovic@taz.telusa.com) writes:

> ??? I remember a note that nelvels does note guarantee the number of
> levels, but not much else.  Any other discussions you can refer me to?
> 
> My problem is how to choose intelligent levels.  The only way I could
> think of is to plot (2dplot) the z component of the data in a temp
> (ram?) window,  and observe the z ticks used by IDL, and use those as
> contour levels.

Here is how I do it. I typically pick equally spaced
contour intervals (I.e., what I *thought* IDL was
suppose to be doing. :-)

  http://www.dfanning.com/tips/nlevels.html

Cheers,

David
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