Screen shot of mrslice viewing the same FAST 2-D file shown in the previous example, but in this example, the vertical exaggeration has been set to 1 to give the proper aspect ratio, and contours have been toggled off. Plotting of overlay data contained in external files has been toggled on. Overlay data can be either lines or points. The names of the files are specified in the Fortran namelist parameter file "mrs.par". An example namelist file would like this: 

 &MRSPAR
        device='x'
        plane='z', nplane=1 vert_exag=1
        linefile='coast.dat'
        pointfile='stations.dat'
 &END

In this example, the parameter file tells mrslice to immediately open an X window (without bothering to ask you to select a device type), plot the first (nplane=1) z-slice (plane='z') with vertical exaggeration of 1.

The linefile must look something like this: 

>
  45.50  207.78
  46.87  206.05
  47.20  205.72
  47.67  205.33
  etc.   etc.
  19.97  119.83
  20.23  119.51
  20.54  119.25
>
 170.83  175.25
 170.43  174.83
 170.06  174.19
 etc.    etc.

i.e., line segments are separated by a ">" symbol. The first column is the x coordinate; second column is the y coordinate. Format is not important. Note: overlay data can only be drawn on top of a z-slice.

The point file must look something like this: 

 85.594 12.516 7 1 1 4
 99.643 36.007 7 1 1 4
109.952 52.423 7 1 1 4
125.516  2.908 7 1 1 4
124.307 48.770 7 1 1 4
etc.

First two columns are x and y coordinates; column three is symbol number (0=square; 2=+; 3=*; 4=circle; 5=x; 7=triangle pt up; 11=diamond; 12=star); column 4 is pen color (1=default foreground color; 0=default background color; 2=red; 3=green; 4=blue; 5=cyan; 6=magenta; 7=yellow; 8=orange; 14=dark gray; 15=light gray) column 5 is line width; column 6 is character height in mm. Format is not important.

Note also in this example: by typing "m" on top of the graphics screen, the global maximum and minimum value of the data file are reported at the bottom of the screen. The maximum and minimum value and their resepective node locations are also reported. In addition, the nodes with the maximum and minimum value are highlighted in white on the plot.

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