CONSYS: A Collection of FORTRAN Subroutines to Produce Contour Maps of Data Surfaces Defined on Rectangular Grids.

Abstract

The CONSYS routines produce coordinate pairs for the straight-line vectors forming a contour map. The routines operate on user supplied samples of the x, y, and z coordinates that specify the data surface to be contoured. To reduce processing time, the routines assume that the data samples are available on a rectangular grid; surfaces represented by randomly scattered samples cannot be directly contoured by CONSYS. The routines are device--independent in the sense that at execution time the user must supply the names of subroutines that CONSYS can call to dispose of contour line coordinate pairs. CONSYS works entirely in the user's coordinate system, and the user is responsible for any scaling and translation necessary to map the coordinate pairs into a viewable area on the plotting device or graphics terminal being used. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA027871

Entities

People

  • Gerald N. Cederquist

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coordinate Systems
  • Graphics
  • Grids
  • Plotting
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Terminals

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  • Computer Science.
  • Geodesy