Re: curly vector arrow density

Hi Joe,
Curly vectors are implemented under-the-hood as an alternate form of streamlines. When a vector is long enough to pass over grid boxes neighboring its point of origin, those boxes are excluded from consideration for starting a new vector. So yes, there is some automatic thinning taking place, and there is for now no way to turn this feature off. The only possibility is to set the reference length to a short enough value that high magnitude vectors stay within a single grid box. Not a satisfactory solution I expect. We can consider adding an option to override this behavior.
 -dave

On Sep 29, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Joe Metzger wrote:

> (I searched for an answer to this but could not find it, sorry if this is a repeated question.)
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> I made two vector plots (attached), one with vcGlyphStyle set to default (LineArrow) and a second with it set to CurlyVector. In both cases I want to plot every single vector, i.e. not skipping any. The only difference in my two scripts is the definition of vcGlyphStyle, yet when I plot using curly vectors, the arrow density is significantly less than when using straight arrows. Does using curly vectors thin the array by default? Is there a way to turn this off?
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