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29 Sep

Using IDL 8 Graphics (a.k.a. New Graphics)

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I’ve been using Direct Graphics (DG) in IDL since 1993. I was initially hesitant about IDL 8 Graphics (christened “New Graphics” on the comp.lang.idl-pvwave newsgroup; I’ll refer to them as NG),... Read More >

27 Sep

Over the Moon

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Have you seen the new images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)? The orbit of the LRO was recently adjusted to bring the sensor closer to the Moon than before. You can see the... Read More >

22 Sep

GRIB helper routines

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IDL's GRIB routines are a thin layer on top of the the C version of the ECMWF GRIB API. The ECMWF routines exposed in IDL are fairly low-level, so they require a bit of programming to extract... Read More >