1 The Data Visualization Kit 1.1 Introduction 2 1.1.1 The Field data type 2 1.1.2 Visualization base modules, macros, and geometries 3 1.1.2.1 "DV" base modules 3 1.1.2.2 Visualization macros 4 1.1.2.3 "DVM" macros 4 1.1.2.4 Array-to-field converters 4 1.1.2.5 netCDF reader and writer 5 1.1.2.6 Geometries 5 1.1.3 FLD field data access library 5 1.1.4 Image Processing Kit 6 2 AVS/Express Field data type 2.1 Introduction 2 2.1.1 Compatibility with other data types 2 2.1.1.1 Importing AVS data types 3 2.1.1.2 Importing other data types 3 2.2 Field data hierarchy 4 2.2.1 Mesh 4 2.2.1.1 Grid 4 2.2.1.2 Cells 5 2.2.2 Data 5 2.3 Field types 7 2.3.1 Unstructured fields 7 2.3.2 Structured fields 8 2.3.3 Rectilinear fields 12 2.3.4 Uniform fields 14 2.4 Using the Read_Field module 16 2.4.1 Native Field Input 16 2.4.2 ASCII Description File 20 2.5 Field format overview 33 2.6 Data type structure - fld.v 35 3 FLD data access library 3.1 Introduction 2 3.1.1 Types of routines 2 3.1.2 Arrays and modes 3 3.1.3 Include files 3 3.1.4 Compiling and linking 4 3.1.5 Return codes 4 3.1.6 Examples 5 3.1.7 Source provided 5 3.2 Node_Data access summary 6 3.2.1 Node_Data Data_Array access 7 3.3 Cell_Data access summary 12 3.3.1 Cell_Data_Poly access summary 13 3.3.2 Cell_Data Data_Arrays 14 3.4 Cells access summary 18 3.5 Cell_Set access summary 19 3.6 Cell_Set (specific cell types) access summary 21 3.7 Grid access summary 24 3.8 Grid_Struct access summary 27 3.9 Node_Data_Struct access summary 29 3.10 Grid_Unif access summary 30 3.11 Grid_Rect access summary 32 4 Geometries 4.1 Introduction 2 4.1.1 Example network 3 4.1.2 Network Editor locations 5 4.1.3 V locations 5 5 IP image processing macros 5.1 Introduction 2 5.1.1 ip_Image data format 2 5.1.2 ip_Roi data format 2 5.1.3 Format conversion 2 5.1.4 Viewing images in a renderer 3 5.1.4.1 2D cameras 3 5.1.4.2 3D cameras 3 5.1.4.3 To see an image 4 5.1.5 Network Editor locations 4 5.1.6 V locations 5 6 Geographic Information System (GIS) Components 6.1 Introduction 2 A Adding your own image readers and writers A.1 Overview 2 A.2 Implementing an image reader 3 A.3 Implementing an image writer 6