place_glyph

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General Module Function

The place_glyph module is used to place a single scalable geometric objects (glyph) at an interactively determined location.

Module Input Ports

Place_glyph has three input ports.

  1. The first port (closest to the left) can have a 3D mesh of any type and is used to set the bounds for the placement of the glyph.  

  2. The second (grey-brown) connects to Explode_and_Scale to inherit the Z_Exaggeration factor.  

  3. The third port accepts the glyph object, usually read in with the load_glyph module.

Module Output Ports

Place_glyph has two output ports. The leftmost output port creates the glyph.

The second output port sends the glyph geometry to the viewer.

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Module Control Panel

The control panel for place_glyph is shown in the figure above.

The scale type-in is used to control the size of the glyphs. The default is 10 and the range is from -2000 to 2000. Negative scale numbers result in reversal of the direction in which the glyph is drawn. This is useful, for example, to draw arrows flowing in the backward gradient direction (high to low; see the gradient module discussion) as in ground water flow.