Re: [Plplot-general] Array out from plshades

[Curtis C. <cu...@hi...>]

> Hi,
>
> I'm using PLplot to produce pictures of longitude, latitude temperature
> maps for my planetary atmospheres research.  I first apply an orthographic
> projection to the lon, lat coordinates and use the grid so computed as the
> argument into plshades along with pltr2:
>
> plshades(temperature, clevels, fill_width, 0, pltr2, X, Y, 2)
>
> Temperature here is known at all longitudes and latitudes for which I have
> computed the X,Y projection matrices, i.e., T(lon, lat).
>
> This is just like example 16.  Now, the routine plots the map projection
> beautifully.  However, for further computations, I would really like to be
> able to extract the projected data, i.e., T in the X,Y coordinate system.
> What would be involved in modifying the PLplot source code to allow me to
> do that?
>
> Cheers,
> Curtis
>
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