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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I sent an answer to this question a few days ago, but I fear it was blocked by some spam policy…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I just wanted to point out that the netCDF datasource normally also supports matrices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Nicolas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">De :</span></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Kst [mailto:kst-bounces@kde.org]
<b>De la part de</b> Barth Netterfield<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> mardi 10 novembre 2015 17:07<br>
<b>À :</b> kst@kde.org<br>
<b>Objet :</b> Re: [Kst] What's the matrix format for plotting in KST ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">Sorry for the very slow reply!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">The only ascii matrix file formats currently supported by kst are the Netpbm formats supported by QImage, and described
 in <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format"><span style="color:#0057AE">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format</span></a>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">The major shortcoming of them is that they only support integers from 0 to 255, since they were meant for 8 bit monochrome
 or 24 bit color images.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">cbn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">On October 15, 2015 8:56:47 AM COURTOIS Sylvain wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> I'm Sylvain Courtois, and I'm a teacher in an engineering school near Paris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> in France.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> I need a little help for using KST. I want to plot data which represent a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> temperature calculated at multiple points of coordinate x,y. I want to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> obtain an image like the example in the video tutorial n°7:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">>
<a href="https://youtu.be/mgP24MryyKw">https://youtu.be/mgP24MryyKw</a> (at 1min30s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> I have tested several formats of ascii files, but no one is recognized. In<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> columns and rows (see attached file plaque2D.csv) and in an unique column<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> as in kst-handbook manual (see plaque2D-KST.dat).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> Can you help me? Can you send me back a description of the file format I can<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> generate? (I have programmed a C script that calculate the values and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> export them in an asci file)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> I would like to use KST with my students as soon as possible. Thank you very<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">> much for your response. With my best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"">Barth Netterfield<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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