Quick Start Guide table of contents

Table of contents

QSG welcome
QSG table of contents
QSG roadmap
QSG credits and copyright

Table of NCAR Graphics examples
Examples: Pick a utility

Annotation examples

MapPlot example 1: How to add textual annotations to a map
TextItem example 8: How to create a TextItem annotation

App examples

App example 1: App objects and resource files

Basic examples

Basic example 1: How to draw a plot using default settings
Basic example 2: How to set the plot size and position and draw multiple plots in a single frame
Basic example 3: How to set resources
Basic example 4: How to select or change an output device
Basic example 5: How to manipulate colormaps
Basic example 6: How to size and position objects
Basic example 7: How to select a workstation device
Basic example 8: How to draw an object outside its viewport
Basic example 9: Shows all the available fonts in NCAR Graphics
XyPlot example 14: How to manipulate XyPlot data

ContourPlot examples

ContourPlot example 1: Drawing a contour plot using default settings
ContourPlot example 2: Basic features of a ContourPlot object
ContourPlot example 3: Overlaying a ContourPlot on LogLinPlot
ContourPlot example 4: Multiple contour plots on a single frame
ContourPlot example 5: Creating a map and contour overlay animation
ContourPlot example 6: Creating contour plots of NetCDF temperature data
ContourPlot example 7: Creating contour plots of NetCDF geo-potential height
ContourPlot example 8: ContourPlot animation of vertical temperature profile
ContourPlot example 9: ContourPlot of NetCDF surface pressure data
ContourPlot example 10: Refining a ContourPlot
ContourPlot example 11: Mixing low level and high level utilities
ContourPlot example 12: Filled contours over a map of Africa
ContourPlot example 13: How to do inverse map transformations
ContourPlot example 14: How to draw contours of wind speeds overlayed on a map plot
ContourPlot example 15: How to draw contours and an XY plot on the same frame
ContourPlot example 16: How to combine vector fill contour plot, raster contour plot, and map plot on the same frame
ContourPlot example 17: How to draw a restricted contour plot over a satellite view projection

LabelBar examples

LabelBar example 1: How to create a label bar using default settings
LabelBar example 2: How to create a label bar with the default colormap

Legend examples

Legend example 1: How to create a legend using defaults
Legend example 2: How to create a legend and specify marker types
Legend example 3: How to create a legend and specify line types

Ngmath examples

Ngmath example 1: Simple example of natural neighbor linear interpolation
Ngmath example 2: Simple example of natural neighbor linear regridding
Ngmath example 3: How to retrieve aspects and slopes of an interpolation
Ngmath example 4: Simple 3D interpolation
Ngmath example 5: How to vary the exponent of the distances in a 2D interpolation
Ngmath example 6: Smoothing in a 2D interpolation
Ngmath example 7: 1D interpolation using splines under tension.
Ngmath example 8: 1D interpolation of periodic function.
Ngmath example 9: 1D interpolation using a smoothing spline.
Ngmath example 10: Interpolation of parametric curve.
Ngmath example 11: Interpolation of closed parametric curve.
Ngmath example 12: 2D interpolation of rectangular data.
Ngmath example 13: Approximate a cubic spline for 1-D data.
Ngmath example 14: Approximate function values using different weights.
Ngmath example 15: Approximate a cubic spline for 1-D data.
Ngmath example 16: Approximate a cubic spline for 2-D data.
Ngmath example 17: Approximate a cubic spline for 3-D data.
Ngmath example 18: Approximate a cubic spline for 3-D data.
Ngmath example 19: Approximate a cubic spline surface for 2-D data.

MapPlot examples

MapPlot example 1: How to use basic MapPlot capabilities
MapPlot example 2: How to control individual map areas
MapPlot example 3: How to use masking with maps
MapPlot example 4: How to add textual annotations to a map
MapPlot example 5: How to create the ten different map projections

Primitives examples

Primitives example 1: How to draw basic primitives using default settings
Primitives example 2: How to draw basic primitives and change some attributes
Primitives example 3: How to draw primitives in NDC space and do clipping.
Primitives example 4: How to draw primitives into an IrregularPlot object.
Primitives example 5: How to draw primitives overlayed on a MapPlot object.

PlotManager examples

MapPlot example 3: How to use masking with maps
ContourPlot example 3: Overlaying a ContourPlot on LogLinPlot
ContourPlot example 5: Creating a map and contour overlay animation
XyPlot example 6: Using multiple lines, external data, and legends

StreamlinePlot examples

StreamlinePlot example 1: How to create a StreamlinePlot object with default settings
StreamlinePlot example 2: How to create line-drawn streamline arrows
StreamlinePlot example 3: How to overlay streamlines on a map projection
StreamlinePlot example 4: How to overlay streamlines of vector data over a map projection

TextItem examples

TextItem example 1: How to create a TextItem object with default settings
TextItem example 2: Creating text in a filled colored font with a bounding box
TextItem example 3: How to set the text background fill color
TextItem example 4: How to use function codes to set text characteristics
TextItem example 5: How to text height and angles
TextItem example 6: How to set text justification
TextItem example 7: How to set text spacing and aspect ratio
TextItem example 8: How to create a TextItem annotation

TickMark examples

TickMark example 1: How to create a TickMark object with default settings
TickMark example 2: How to create a TickMark object with bottom and left ticks turned on
TickMark example 3: How to reverse and change tickmark style

Title examples

Title example 1: How to create a main title with default settings
Title example 2: How to create a main title and X and Y axis titles with default settings
Title example 3: How to set Title font, color, and size resources

VectorPlot examples

VectorPlot example 1: How to create a VectorPlot object with default settings
VectorPlot example 2: How to create line-drawn vector arrows
VectorPlot example 3: How to change the appearance of filled vector arrows
VectorPlot example 4: How to rotate a vector plot 90 degrees
VectorPlot example 5: How to overlay a vector plot on a MapPlot
VectorPlot example 6: How to use a scalar field to determine color of vector fill arrow
VectorPlot example 7: How to overlay contours and vectors on a MapPlot
VectorPlot example 8: How to plot vectors and color them by wind speed
VectorPlot example 9: How to do a vector animation using vectors and color contours of wind, temperature, and pressure

XyPlot examples

XyPlot example 1: How to create an XyPlot using default settings
XyPlot example 2: How to set XyPlot resources using a resource file
XyPlot example 3: How to set resources and axis coordinates
XyPlot example 4: How to create an XyPlot with multiple lines
XyPlot example 5: How to create an XyPlot with multiple lines using a CoordArrTable object
XyPlot example 6: Using multiple lines, external data, and legends
XyPlot example 7: Creating a scattergram
XyPlot example 8: Using irregular points to set a plot transformation
XyPlot example 9: Setting axis styles
XyPlot example 10: Overlaying an XyPlot on a MapPlot
XyPlot example 11: How to draw an XyPlot in an X window and an NCGM file
XyPlot example 12: How to incorporate the HLU library with your own X interface
XyPlot example 13: How to interactively retrieve coordinate locations from a plot
XyPlot example 14: How to manipulate XyPlot data
XyPlot example 15: Creating 'stacked' plots using the annotation feature
XyPlot example 16: How to draw an XyPlot with three different axes
XyPlot example 17: How to draw three stacked XyPlots sharing the same X axis

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