The rendering options for scalar data are accessed through the Draw
menu. These options include:
Redraw -
Re-renders the Main Drawing Area (with the current settings).
New Window -
Produces a new drawing area with view controls to provide a different perspective
of the model data.
Objects -
Toggles the drawing of axes, wireframe, grid lattice, and vectors in the
Main Drawing Area.
Coordinate System -
Offers a choice of a left- or right-handed coordinate system.
Palette -
Offers a choice of color maps or greyscale.
Lighting -
Offers a choice of lighting models through selection of one of the three
radio-buttons. This affects, for example, the rendering of isosurfaces.
Options - toggle buttons for changing the drawing modes:
Smooth -
Toggles Gouraud-shading on and off for both Slices and Isosurfaces (see
the Tools description). Smoothing-off
colors exact cell values and renders isosurface contouring as triangulated
surfaces.
Depth Cuing -
Toggles the use of `fog' for additional 3-D depth effect.
Draw Size Area -
Exposes a widget to set the exact number of pixels of the Main Draw area
for the recording of images. For rough sizing, one may resize the window
in the standard way by selecting the lower right corner and dragging.
Stereo 3-D -
Toggles the monitor to stereo mode (on systems with stereo capability),
and renders images accordingly.
The Tools menu includes options to render multiple
slices and isosurfaces for the scalar data in addition to providing tools
to record/playback a simulation session and to provide viewing controls.
