Introduction
The IDL iSurface tool provides interactive access to surface data. You can visualize surfaces and then modify and manipulate those surfaces in the ways that you need. The following sections describe how surfaces can be displayed, modified, and manipulated in iSurface.
To use iSurface from the IDL Command Line, type iSurface. An empty iSurface tool appears. You can then import surface data using any of several data import methods. For more information on importing surface data, see Importing and Exporting Data.
Note
For more information on accepted arguments, see "ISURFACE" (IDL Reference Guide).
The iSurface tool can be launched in the following ways:
- By dragging variables onto the Surface icon of the Visualization Palette (see Surface Visualizations)
- At the IDL Command Line without arguments or keywords
- At the IDL Command Line with arguments and keywords
- Through the File → New → iSurface menu option in an existing iTool
