Sphere Plot Window
Sphere Plot Window
The Sphere Plot (
)
plots spherical polar coordinates in an isotropic 3-dimensional space.
Although the supplied coordinates are spherical polar,
the visible space is not necessarily centred on the coordinate origin,
and the visible axes are Cartesian.
In many respects this works like the
Cube Plot Window
See the Window Overview
for features common to all layer plots.
The positional coordinates are Longitude and Latitude (in degrees) and Radius.
Navigation is like that for the Cube Plot:
To re-centre the plot in the visible cube, right-click on the position you're interested in. A screen position represents a line not a point, so there is a degeneracy here; the new central position is actually the average of data point positions near the mouse click. The upshot is that if you click on a point or clump of interest, it should do what you want.
/
) on the toolbar.
Either of these zooms the data volume in the visible cube
about its centre, so the cube wireframe axes stay in the same place
on the screen, but the axis annotations move.
If you want to get zoom in or out on the cube wireframe itself, you can do it using the Zoom Factor slider in the View tab of the Axes control.
The sphere plot offers the following plot controls:
Table Layer Control, with these form options:
The Axes control (
) is described in
the next subsection.
