.help volumes Jan89 "Volumes Package"

***** NOTE:  This is just a suggested package organization and will
*****        definitely NOT be the final one chosen.

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Volume or 3d Image Applications in IRAF
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January 1989

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Introduction

The Volumes package collects tasks related to manipulating and displaying
volume images (3d images, or datacubes).  Although all IRAF images can be
multidimensional (currently up to 7 dimensions), not all applications tasks
are equipped to handle images of dimension greater than 2.  Examples of
tasks that are so equipped are IMARITH, IMSTATISTICS, BLKAVG, and DISPLAY
for looking at arbitrary 2d sections of higher dimensional images.

Volumes applications include tasks for manipulating the orientation of
a 3d image, joining 3d images, projections of datacube contents
onto 2d images, and tasks related to viewing a datacube or its projections
as a movie.

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Datacube Manipulation Tasks

D3TRANSPOSE	3d transpose, any axis to any other axis
IMJOIN		join 2 or more 3d images together along specified axis
IMCOPY
BLKAVG
IMSLICE

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Datacube Generation Tasks

BINTOIM		[not in VOLUMES; probably still PROTO after upgrade to 3d?]
POINTOIM	convert n-dimensional point data into volumes in datacube
MANDEL4		4d Mandelbrot set generator

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Volume Projection Tasks

PVOL		project volume contents onto series of 2d images
SLICEVOL*	"cubetool" -- slice off faces of datacube rendered from
		    arbitrary angle w/translucency

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Movie-Related Tasks

IMTOSUN		convert datacube or list of 2d images into Sun rasterfiles
IMTOVID		(script) record set of 2d images onto panasonic video recorder
CUBETOVID	(script) record sliced from databube onto video recorder

* = [not yet implemented]