<html> <head> <title>Gri: image plots</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000EE" vlink="#551A8B" alink="FF0000"> <!-- newfile Images.html "Gri: image plots" "Image Plots" --> <!-- @node Images, Reading and Creating Image Data, Ungridded Data, Top --> <a name="Images" ></a> <img src="./resources/top_banner.gif" usemap="#navigate_top" border="0"> <table summary="top banner" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="150" valign="top"> <font size=-1> <br> Chapters: </br> <a href="Introduction.html">1: Introduction</a><br> <a href="SimpleExample.html">2: Simple example</a><br> <a href="InvokingGri.html">3: Invocation</a><br> <a href="GettingMoreControl.html">4: Finer Control</a><br> <a href="X-Y.html">5: X-Y Plots</a><br> <a href="ContourPlots.html">6: Contour Plots</a><br> <a href="Images.html">7: Image Plots</a><br> <a href="Examples.html">8: Examples</a><br> <a href="Commands.html">9: Gri Commands</a><br> <a href="Programming.html">10: Programming</a><br> <a href="Environment.html">11: Environment</a><br> <a href="Emacs.html">12: Emacs Mode</a><br> <a href="History.html">13: History</a><br> <a href="Installation.html">14: Installation</a><br> <a href="Bugs.html">15: Gri Bugs</a><br> <a href="TestSuite.html">16: Test Suite</a><br> <a href="Acknowledgments.html">17: Acknowledgments</a><br> <a href="License.html">18: License</a><br> <br> Indices:</br> <a href="ConceptIndex.html"><i>Concepts</i></a><br> <a href="CommandIndex.html"><i>Commands</i></a><br> <a href="BuiltinIndex.html"><i>Variables</i></a><br> </font> <td width="500" valign="top"> <map name="navigate_top"> <area alt="index.html#Top" shape="rect" coords="5,2,218,24" href="index.html#Top"> <area alt="index.html#Top" shape="rect" coords="516,2,532,24" href="index.html#Top"> <area alt="Gri: contour plots" shape="rect" coords="557,2,573,24" href="ContourPlots.html"> <area alt="Gri: extra examples" shape="rect" coords="581,2,599,24" href="Examples.html"> </map> <map name="navigate_bottom"> <area alt="index.html#Top" shape="rect" coords="5,2,218,24" href="index.html#Top"> <area alt="Gri: extra examples" shape="rect" coords="581,2,599,24" href="Examples.html"></map> <h1>7: Image Plots</h1> Gri can read in images stored in various formats. It can also create image data internally, by converting gridded data, which is quite handy in some contouring applications. <p> Note: if your diagram is to be reproduced by a journal, it is unlikely that the reproduction will be able to distinguish between any two graylevels which differ by less than 0.2. Also, graylevels less than 0.2 may appear as pure black, while those of 0.8 or more may appear as pure white. These guidelines are as specified by American Geophysical Union (publishers of J. Geophysical Res.), as of 1998. <p> <UL> <LI><a href="Images.html#ReadingandCreatingImageData">Reading and Creating Image Data</a>: Reading image, and creating from grid data <LI><a href="Images.html#ImagePostScriptOutput">Image PostScript Output</a>: How the image is embedded in the PostScript <LI><a href="Images.html#ExampleImage">Example Image</a>: How to plot a satellite image </UL> <!-- @node Reading and Creating Image Data, Image PostScript Output, Images, Images --> <a name="ReadingandCreatingImageData" ></a> <h2>7.1: Reading and Creating Image Data</h2> Gri can do black and white image plots, such as satellite images. There are several ways to create image data in Gri <ul> <li> Create images from gridded data using `<font color="#82140F"><code>convert grid to image</code></font>'. For examples see see <a href="ImageExample.html#GrayscaleImages">Grayscale Images</a>), see <a href="ImageWithContours.html#Combination">Combination</a>, and see <a href="ContouringExample.html#Contouring">Contouring</a>. <li> Read raw ascii image data files. Use `<font color="#82140F"><code>read grid</code></font>'. <li> Read PGM (portable graymap) ascii files. (That is, a file with magic characters `<font color="#82140F"><code>P1</code></font>' or `<font color="#82140F"><code>P3</code></font>' at the start.) Use the `<font color="#82140F"><code>read image pgm</code></font>' command, for a file opened in ascii mode with `<font color="#82140F"><code>open filename</code></font>'. <li> Read raw binary data, with or without headers. Use `<font color="#82140F"><code>read image</code></font>', after skipping any header bytes using the `<font color="#82140F"><code>skip</code></font>' command, for a file opened in binary mode with `<font color="#82140F"><code>open filename binary</code></font>'. <li> Read a Sun ``rasterfile'' file (but only in uncompressed form). Use `<font color="#82140F"><code>read image rasterfile</code></font>' for a file opened in binary mode with `<font color="#82140F"><code>open filename binary</code></font>'. <li> Read a PGM (portable graymap) binary file. (A file with magic characters `<font color="#82140F"><code>P2</code></font>' or `<font color="#82140F"><code>P4</code></font>' at the start.) Use the `<font color="#82140F"><code>read image pgm</code></font>' for a file opened in binary mode with `<font color="#82140F"><code>open filename binary</code></font>'. <li> Aside: Images can be converted to grids (for contouring) using `<font color="#82140F"><code>convert image to grid</code></font>' (see <a href="Convert.html#Convert">Convert</a>). </ul> <p> Once the image is created, its grayscale/colorscale may be manipulated with the commands `<font color="#82140F"><code>set image grayscale</code></font>' and `<font color="#82140F"><code>set image colorscale</code></font>', which permit linear and histogram-equalized blendings over the grayscale or color range, or with `<font color="#82140F"><code>read image grayscale</code></font>' and `<font color="#82140F"><code>read image colorscale</code></font>', which permit reading in the grayscale or color values individually, one for each of the 256 pixel values. <p> It is important to understand the structure of image data. Gri works only with 8-bit image data. This means that a given pixel of the image may have only one of 256 possible values. The example below uses a satellite image of surface temperature. The suppliers of the data dictate that pixel value 0 corresponds to a temperature of 5C, and a pixel value of 255 corresponds to 30.5C, so the resolution is 0.1C per pixel value. This resolution will be apparent if the output of the example below is previewed on a grayscale/color monitor --- notice the quantization in the palette. This resolution issue is not very important with satellite images, since you have to use what you are given by the suppliers of the data. However, the issue is very important when you are converting grid data to images. When Gri converts grid data to image data, it neccessarily discards information, because the grid data have resolution to about 6 digits, whereas the image data have only 8-bit (2-3 digit) resolution. The `<font color="#82140F"><code>set image range</code></font>' commands determines the range of this 8-bit resolution in terms of user units. All other things being equal, it would be preferable to use the smallest range consistent with the range of your data. If your grid data ranged from 0 to 1, say, you might `<font color="#82140F"><code>set image range 0 1</code></font>'. This would give a resolution in the image of 1/255 in the user units. But, when Gri converts the grid into an image, it will <b>clip</b> all data outside the indicated range. In this case, any data greater than 1 in the grid would translate to <b>exactly</b> 1 in the image. Naturally there is a tradeoff between having a range large enough to encompass any data in the grid, and a range small enough to yield adequate resolution. In most cases, 8-bit resolution will be adequate, but it is good to be aware of the limitations. One should always `<font color="#82140F"><code>draw image palette</code></font>', and check it on a color monitor for bandedness, which is a sign of resolution problems. <p> <!-- @node Image PostScript Output, Example Image, Reading and Creating Image Data, Images --> <a name="ImagePostScriptOutput" ></a> <h2>7.2: About The PostScript Output</h2> Programmers Note: Gri inserts some special comments in the PostScript file, to help programmers extract the image data; to extract the information, you'll have to understand how PostScript handles images. Gri inserts a single comment line before a line ending in the token `<font color="#82140F"><code>im</code></font>': <p> <TABLE SUMMARY="Example" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#efefef" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <PRE> <font color="#82140F"> %BEGIN_IMAGE 170.70 170.70 534.86 534.86 128 128 im </font></PRE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <p> The first four numbers are the (x,y) locations of the lower-left and upper-right corners of the image, in units of points on the page (72 points = 1 inch). The fifth and sixth numbers are the width of the image and the height of the image. The keyword `<font color="#82140F"><code>im</code></font>' is always present on this line. Gri inserts the following comment line at the end of the image data <p> <TABLE SUMMARY="Example" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#efefef" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <PRE> <font color="#82140F"> %END_IMAGE </font></PRE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <p> <!-- @node Example Image, Examples, Image PostScript Output, Images --> <a name="ExampleImage" ></a> <h2>7.3: Example (Satellite image)</h2> Here's an example that will plot different types of images, depending on your answers to `<font color="#82140F"><code>query</code></font>' questions. The file called `<font color="#82140F"><samp>\filename</samp></font>' is the data file, in binary format with one byte (`<font color="#82140F"><code>unsigned char</code></font>' in C) for each pixel, stored with the northwest pixel first, and the pixel to the east of that next. The file called `<font color="#82140F"><code>\mask</code></font>' is in the same format, and the numbers are 0 if the point is over the sea and 1 if over land. The mask file is used in computing the histograms, which is done if `<font color="#82140F"><code>\histo</code></font>' is 1. <p> The file in this example covers 128 * 128 pixels over the Gulf of Maine. The numbers in `<font color="#82140F"><code>\filename</code></font>' correspond to surface temperatures according to the equation <p> <TABLE SUMMARY="Example" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#efefef" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <PRE> <font color="#82140F"> T = 5 + 0.1 * pixel_value </font></PRE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <p> which explains the following lines in the command file: <p> <TABLE SUMMARY="Example" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#efefef" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <PRE> <font color="#82140F"> \0val = "5" # 0 in image \255val = "30.5" # 255 in image </font></PRE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <p> Depending on `<font color="#82140F"><code>\histo</code></font>', the graymap will be linear or histogram-enhanced. The histogram method consists of dividing the cumulative histogram for the values in the image up into 256 levels, and assigning a graylevel to each. This has the effect of creating maximal contrast in all ranges of graylevel. It points up features really well, but it is a nonlinear mapping, so it is not good for telling you where gradients are strong or weak. <p> <A HREF="example6.png"> <IMG ALT="Example 6" SRC="example6-tiny.png" ALIGN=top> </A> <A HREF="example6.html">The command-file.</A> <P> </table> <img src="./resources/bottom_banner.gif" usemap="#navigate_bottom" border="0"> </body> </html>
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