NCL: Three-Dimensional Graphics

There's a separate page showing how to create NCL plots of WRF output data in 3D.

These examples are generated by routines that are part of the low-level TDPACK package, which is a group of Fortran and C callable routines for projecting objects from a 3-dimensional coordinate system having U, V, and W axes to a 2-dimensional projection plane having X and Y axes and/or for drawing the projections of those objects. This can be referred to somewhat loosely as "drawing objects in three dimensions".

The NCL routines are nothing more than wrappers around the Fortran versions of these functions, and hence are not intended to behave like other drawing interfaces in NCL, where you set resources to change plot options.

tdpack_1.ncl: This example shows how to use the simplified tdez2d procedure to draw a surface. The data are input as two 1D arrays, and one 2D array of the same dimensions as the 1D arrays.

tdpack_2.ncl: This example shows how to use the simplified tdez3d procedure to draw an isourface. The data are input as three 1D arrays, and one 3D array of the same dimensions as the 1D arrays.

tdpack_3.ncl: This example shows how to generate a 3D scatter plot.

tdpack_4.ncl: This example shows how to create a surface and an isosurce shade them in different colors.

tdpack_5.ncl: This example shows how to create a several isosurfaces and shade them in different colors. This example requires the data file tdpack5.bin.

tdpack_6.ncl: This example shows how to draw curves with arrowheads.