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#### 4.1.2.13 Mirage Format

Mirage was a nice standalone tool for analysis of multidimensional data, from which TOPCAT took some inspiration. It was described in a 2007 paper 2007ASPC..371..391H, but no significant development seems to have taken place since then. This format is therefore probably obsolete, but you can still write table output in Mirage-compatible format if you like.

If no output format is explicitly chosen, writing to a filename with the extension "`.mirage`" (case insensitive) will select `mirage` format for output.

An example looks like this:

    #
    # Written by uk.ac.starlink.mirage.MirageFormatter
    # Omitted column 5: MAMMAL(Boolean)
    #
    # Column names
    format var RECNO SPECIES NAME LEGS HEIGHT
    #
    # Text columns
    format text SPECIES
    format text NAME
    #
    # Table data
    1 pig Pigling_Bland 4 0.8
    2 cow Daisy 4 2.0
    3 goldfish Dobbin <blank> 0.05
    4 ant <blank> 6 0.001
    5 ant <blank> 6 0.001
    6 queen_ant Ma'am 6 0.002
    7 human Mark 2 1.8

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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@jiscmail.ac.uk