I am trying to visualize field lines using the streamline flow renderer but the results are not what I expect. I created this example to have field lines which spiral around a specific center (see image below of a field line computed in IDL). However, the VAPOR flow renderer tends to produce nonsensical lines (see image below from VAPOR, using 100 random seeds with the rake around a typical area I want to start the integration from). It appears that the integration is taking very large initial steps. I am wondering if there is a way to adjust this? Or is it possible that something is going wrong when I’m converting my data to vdc? The volume renderer produces expected output with expected values so I’m a bit confused. Below is the code I use to convert my data to vdc from the files ‘Bx’, ‘By’, ‘Bz’. Any input is appreciated.
Hi noonewade, are you sure that they are single-precision floats? I see either zeroes or values in the magnitude of 1e-38 if interpreted as floats. Numbers like that are most often used to indicate a special status or region, rather than from a valid field.
@sam that’s odd. The data does have a lot of zeros but was created to form a ‘tube’ in the y-direction centered around x=3, z=1.15.
I just tested what I uploaded and I’m seeing the correct data values (which have magnitude O(1)) in VAPOR when converting to vdc using the commands in my original post.
