Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of Shape/ExternalData

Timestamp:

06/16/15 15:54:22 (10 years ago)

Author:

madams

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Shape/ExternalData

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 3. Import the data into Excel. Take the averages of all of the columns. You can open the file in terminal and scroll to the bottom to determine how many lines there are. You will use these values later to ''center'' your data.
 
-[[Image(Screen Shot 2015-06-16 at 11.47.22.png)]]
+[[Image(Screen Shot 2015-06-16 at 11.47.22.png)]] [[br]]
+'''Figure 1.''' A screen shot of the Excel spreadsheet, where the pseudo sphere ASCII data was imported (''test_sphere_7col.dat''). The averages are bolded. Headers are above the averages, and the raw data below.
 
 4. Once you have looked at your data to see what format it is in (number of columns, delimiters), and gotten the averages for each column, you can open ''Shape.''
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 When you first open the ''3D Module'', it will look like this:
 
-[[Image(Screen Shot 2015-06-16 at 13.20.02.png)]]
+[[Image(Screen Shot 2015-06-16 at 13.20.02.png, width=800)]] [[br]]
+'''Figure 2.''' A screen shot of the ''3D Module'' once a new project is opened.
+[[br]]
 
+Now following the numbers in '''Figure 3'''.
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+[[Image(Screen Shot 2015-06-16 at 13.20.28.png, width=800)]] [[br]]
+'''Figure 3.''' A screen shot of the ''3D Module'' after creating a mesh sphere.
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+In order to import external data, we will need to use one of the ''mesh objects'' listed at the top of the '''3D Module''' ('''Figures 2 & 3''') (''Sphere, Torus, Cone, Cube, Plane, Cylinder, etc.'') to carry it into the software. This is all done in this module, and then we visualize it in the '''Render Module.''' 
 
 == Physics Module ==