Contents

 
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Supported Data Formats
    • 1.1.1 Converting Data Formats
  • 1.2 Adding your own Data Formats
  • 1.3 Units
• 2 Common Features
  • 2.1 Loading Data
    • 2.1.1 Decimation of Datacubes
  • 2.2 Intensity Scaling
  • 2.3 Sequences of Images
  • 2.4 Hardcopies
  • 2.5 Exporting Data
  • 2.6 Zooming
  • 2.7 Resizing/autoscaling
  • 2.8 Axis Labels
  • 2.9 Magnifying Glass
  • 2.10 Panner
  • 2.11 Spectrum Profiles
    • Zooming in TracePopup Widget
  • 2.12 Image Statistics
  • 2.13 Viewing Header Information
  • 2.14 Freezing Events
  • 2.15 Common Image Display Features
    • The Magnifier
    • The Panner
    • Zooming in ImageDisplay Widget
    • Image Statistics in ImageDisplay Widget
    • Viewing Header Information in ImageDisplay Widget
  • 2.16 Generating Moment Maps
  • 2.17 Cursor Readout
    • 2.17.1 Warning for Astronomers
  • GUI Command-line Switches
    • 2.18.1 Avoiding Colourmap Flashing
      • Summary
  • 2.19 Drawing Overlays
    • Drawing Rectangles
    • Drawing Ellipses
    • Drawing Polygons
  • 2.20 Loading Overlays
• 3 Viewing Images and Cubes
  • Command-line Options
  • 3.2 Special Movies
  • 3.3 Multiple Contour Images
• 4 Volume Rendering a Cube
  • 4.1 How the rendering is done
    • 4.1.1 Shaders
  • 4.2 Starting up the Volume Rendering Tool
    • 4.2.1 Options
  • 4.3 Loading Data into xray
  • 4.4 The main control window
    • 4.4.1 Rendering Modes
    • 4.4.2 Rotating the cube
  • 4.5 Making a Movie
  • 4.6 Filtering your data
    • 4.6.1 Adaptive Filtering
    • 4.6.2 Contintuum Subtraction
    • 4.6.3 Other Controls
  • 4.7 Hot Gas Substances control panel
  • 4.8 Hot Gas Mono control panel
  • 4.9 Hot Gas Continuous control panel
  • 4.10 Hot Gas Three Colour control panel
• kpvslice: interactive position-velocity slicing
  • 5.1 How to use it
    • 5.1.1 Viewing Profiles
  • 5.2 Extracting Slices From An Image
• 6 kslice_3d: slicing data cubes
  • 6.1 Precompute
  • 6.2 Magnifications
• 7 krenzo: renzograms, an alternative to velocity fields
• 8 kshell: looking for expanding shells
• koords: interactive co-ordinate fitting
  • 9.1 Centring Algorithm
• kpolar: regridding to polar co-ordinates
• 11 Superimposing Images
  • 11.1 Image and Contours
  • 11.2 Hue and Intensity
  • 11.3 Intensity and Intensity
    • 11.3.1 Data Conversion
• Command-line Tools
  • 12.1 Common Interface
  • 12.2 Interactive Mode
    • 12.2.1 Actions
    • 12.2.2 Scalar Parameters
    • 12.2.3 Vector Parameters
    • 12.2.4 Choice Parameters
    • 12.2.5 ``Eternal'' Actions
    • 12.2.6 Other Arguments
    • 12.2.7 Exiting Interactive Mode
  • 12.3 Batch Mode
    • 12.3.1 Passing in Parameters and Actions
    • 12.3.2 Passing in Strings
    • 12.3.3 Passing in Negative Values
    • 12.3.4 Passing in Other Arguments
  • 12.4 Saving and Restoring Parameters
  • 12.5 List of Tasks
    • 12.5.1 chlen
      • Examples
    • 12.5.2 images2karma
    • 12.5.3 karma2ppm
      • Writing other Image Formats
      • Changing the Output Image Size
    • 12.5.4 kdecimate
    • 12.5.5 kminmax
    • 12.5.6 kprinthead
    • 12.5.7 kregrid
    • send-contours
• A Chromatic Aberration
• B Setting up
  • B.1 Environments needed
  • B.2 Operating Systems
• C Resources
• D Annotation File Format
  • D.1 Usage
  • D.2 Fundamental Syntax
  • D.3 Annotation Commands
    • Non-Graphical Commands
    • D.3.2 Attribute Commands
    • D.3.3 Object Commands
    • D.3.4 Position Angle Conventions
  • D.4 Example Annotation File
• E Making Videos
  • E.1 Basic Facilities at the ATNF
  • E.2 Using Sydney University VisLab Facilities
• F Acknowledgements
• Index