The NCL team is pleased to announce the release of NCL version 6.1.0-beta.
This version contains a major overhaul of the graphics display model, which allows for:
- The use of transparency via RGBA (alpha) values
- Using named colors ("PaleGreen") without having to add them to your color map
- The use of more than 256 colors per image
We've also changed some graphical defaults, which we think will be a big improvement:
- Default color table has been changed to one with 256 colors
- Default font is now "helvetica"
- Default function code is now "~"
- The color map will automatically be spanned for colored vectors, contours, and streamlines
- The labelbar labels will automatically be strided if they overlap.
Some other new features include:
- New regridding functions via ESMF (Earth System Modeling Framework) software
- Several new functions, color tables, and resources
- Improvements to GRIB1/GRIB2 reader
- Bug fixes
Since this version of NCL has so many changes to its underlying graphics, we decided
to do a beta release first. We would appreciate people testing this new version before
we do an official release. Feedback can be done via the ncl-talk@ucar.edu email list,
or via a bug report (see http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/report_bug.shtml).
For full details on this new version with links to the new features, see:
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/current_release.shtml
For some examples of the new graphical and regridding features, see:
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/rgbacolor.shtml
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/ESMF.shtml
--Mary Haley, on behalf of the NCL team
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Received on Mon May 28 18:13:16 2012
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