[ncl-talk] Plotting unstructured mesh

Mathieu Dutour mathieu.dutour at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 07:21:37 MST 2014


Dear Mary,

thank you very much! Yes with "RasterFill" it works correctly.
I used version 6.2.1.

However the speed is still not absolutely excellent at 2.8s for a
plot. Is there a list of standard practice to make plots faster?

  Mathieu

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Mathieu,
>
> What version of NCL are you running?
>
> ncl -V
>
> I was able to run your script just fine, but I changed cnFillMode from
> "AreaFill" to "RasterFill". See attached png.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Mathieu Dutour <mathieu.dutour at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear ncl users,
>>
>> I have some errors for some contour plots on unstructured
>> grids (the script is in attachment and the relevant netcdf file
>> is available from
>> http://mathieudutour.altervista.org/Sending/test.nc   )
>>
>> Below is exact error:
>> fatal:ContourPlotPreDraw: ARSCAM/ARPRAM - ALGORITHM FAILURE
>> fatal:ContourPlotDraw: draw error
>> fatal:PlotManagerPreDraw: error in plot pre-draw
>> fatal:_NhlPlotManagerDraw: PreDraw error
>>
>> I believe that the data is too irregular for the algorithm to plot it.
>> But is there any way to alleviate this problem?
>>
>> Secondly, the plots sometime takes extremely long time to be done.
>> The mesh has only 110804 nodes which is nowhere near big. What
>> would be possible to avoid that problem?
>>
>>   Mathieu
>>
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