Re: making a plot with only the label bar for Google Earth

rK,

I implemented the transparency feature. Have a look at this new example
script:

http://rpavlick.github.com/kmlncl/examples/#ex_06

- Ryan

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Ryan Pavlick <ryan.pavlick@gmail.com>wrote:

> Gave that idea a quick try, seems like it won't work.
>
> I think the solution will involved plotting the unwanted areas as white
> (or some other color) and then making them transparent with Imagemagick.
>
> I'll have to add this as an optional resource in the function
> kml_crop_plot. It will probably take me a few days.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ryan Pavlick <ryan.pavlick@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> rK,
>>
>> Glad that you like it.
>>
>> I haven't tried it yet but NCL 6.10-beta has a new color model,
>>
>> http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/rgbacolor.shtml
>>
>> which includes an alpha channel for transparency. I would try setting the
>> alpha channel to 0 in resource mpFillColors. Maybe one of the NCL
>> developers at NCAR has a better idea.
>>
>> If you can get NCL to produce the figure as you want it, I'll do whatever
>> modifications are necessary (if any) to kml.ncl to get it working in GE.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:46 AM, rK Aditya <aditya.rk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank Ryan! Very nice work and I have tried it.
>>>
>>> Taking example from the ROMS output, I made KML figure based on your
>>> libraries. But I am wondering how to make land mask becoming transparent so
>>> that it can show continents figure from GE. (I attached KMZ file).
>>>
>>> In Grads we can use "set display color white" to make background to
>>> transparent so we can get PNG file with transparent background and nicely
>>> attached in GE. But I don't know how to set it in NCL. I tried several
>>> resources "cn" and "mp" but I could not find the solutions.
>>>
>>> If anyone knows?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -r/K-
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Dennis Shea <shea@ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Very nice! Please keep ncl-talk@ucar.edu updated as you proress.
>>>> D
>>>>
>>>> On 9/23/12 5:00 AM, Ryan Pavlick wrote:
>>>> > Emanuele,
>>>> >
>>>> > You may be interested in a library that I'm developing for working
>>>> with
>>>> > KML files in NCL.
>>>> >
>>>> > http://rpavlick.github.com/kmlncl
>>>> >
>>>> > Regarding cropping the label bar and map, have a look at this example
>>>> > script:
>>>> >
>>>> > http://rpavlick.github.com/kmlncl/examples/#ex_05
>>>> >
>>>> > Cheers,
>>>> > Ryan
>>>> >
>>>> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Emanuele Lombardi
>>>> > <emanuele.lombardi@enea.it <mailto:emanuele.lombardi@enea.it>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Dear NCL-ers,
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm asking for your help since I want to place my NCL plots on
>>>> Google
>>>> > Earth and then I need two images: one with the only the contoured
>>>> data
>>>> > on the map and one the with only its labelbar.
>>>> > While I've been able to produce the first image in a worstation,
>>>> I'm
>>>> > not able to plot in another workstation only the labelbar of the
>>>> > previously plotted map.
>>>> >
>>>> > Can you, please, help me ?
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks from Italy,
>>>> > Emanuele Lombardi
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>> > Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
>>>> >
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>> Dr. Ryan Pavlick
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>> Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
>>
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> Dr. Ryan Pavlick
> Biospheric Theory and Modelling Group
> Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
>
> phone: +49.36.41.57.6223
> web: http://gaia.mpg.de
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Dr. Ryan Pavlick
Biospheric Theory and Modelling Group
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
phone: +49.36.41.57.6223
web: http://gaia.mpg.de
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