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The Axes control (
) for the
sphere plot window has five tabs.
Range tab of the sphere axes control
The Range tab provides manual configuration of
the data range of the plot. Making changes to this tab will reset
the visible plot range, but not vice versa - zooming and panning
in the usual way will not change the settings of this panel.
Any values not filled in will be determined from the data.
View tab of the sphere axes control
The View tab can configure how the cube containng
the data is viewed in the plot window, though it does not control
the content of the cube.
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Rotation about Z axis
- Explicitly sets the rotation angle about the Z axis,
regardless of its current value, which may have been set by
mouse actions.
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Rotation from vertical
- Explicitly sets the rotation angle from vertical,
regardless of its current value, which may have been set by
mouse actions.
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Zoom factor
- Sets the magnification of the cube wireframe itself, without
affecting the data volume it contains. This cannot be done with
the mouse.
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X/Y offset of centre
- Controls where on the screen the cube wireframe is centred.
This cannot be done with the mouse.
Grid tab of the sphere axes control
The Grid tab configures the appearance of the
cube wire frame enclosing the data volume.
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Draw wire frame
- Whether the enclosing cube is drawn at all.
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Minor Ticks
- If set, minor (unlabelled) tick marks will be drawn between the
major (labelled) ones.
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X/Y/Z Tick Crowding
- Use the slider to influence how many tick marks are draw on each axis.
Labels tab of the sphere axes control
The Labels tab controls the text labels on the axes.
If the Auto checkbox is set, the text will be taken
from one of the data coordinates being plotted on that axis.
To override those with your own axis labels, unset Auto and type
text in to the Label fields.
Font tab of the cube axes control
The Font tab configures the font used for axis annotation.
It also affects some other things like the legend.
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Text Syntax
- Whether to use plain text or LaTeX rules to make sense of the text
value.
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Font Size
- Size of the font in points.
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Font Style
- Style of the font.
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Font Weight
- Whether the font is plain, bold or italic.
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TOPCAT - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
Starlink User Note253
TOPCAT web page:
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/
Author email:
m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
Mailing list:
topcat-user@bristol.ac.uk