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A.4.10 Cube Plot Window

Cube Plot Window

Cube Plot Window

The Cube Plot () plots 3-dimensional Cartesian positions in a 3-d space.

The positional coordinates are X, Y and Z. To control the direction and linear/logarithmic scaling of the axes, see the Coords tab of the Axes control.

See the Window Overview for features common to all plotting windows. The following subsections describe navigation and axis configuration.

The cube plot offers the following plot controls:

Note that use of the Auto and Density shading modes can be confusing in 3 dimensions with multiple datasets. This is because pixels based on density along a line of sight are not located at any point on that line, so shaded pixels can't appear at the "right" place in the 3-d space. The same applies to a lesser extent with contours. They work fine with a single dataset though.


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Starlink User Note253
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