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3D Surface Controls
Overview

Isosurfaces can be made in two types of displays, regular isosurfaces, and isosurfaces colored by another parameter. An isosurface is a 3D surface mapping the location of a single parameter value through a 3D field. Isosurfaces are a 3D analog of a single contour line in a 2D plot; the intersection of an isosurface and any plane is a contour line of the same value in that plane.

Coloring an isosurface by another parameter can serve many purposes. One example use of this is creating a display for possible icing conditions in the atmosphere that could be useful for pilots. To do this, the user would select Temperature as the field, the "Isosurface colored by another parameter" display type, and Relative Humidity in the Field Selector window that appears when Create Display is clicked. After the display is created, the isosurface value for Temperature can be set to be 0 degrees Celsius in the Layer Controls tab of the Data Explorer. Now, in the Main Display window, a surface of 0 degrees Celsius colored by Relative Humidity is displayed. Wherever high RH values are seen means that there is a lot of moisture in the atmosphere, and at the freezing temperatures, there could be icing conditions.


Image 1: Isosurface Controls Properties Dialog
Properties
Properties with *As Topography Displays
Menus

Many of the menu items seen utilizing this display are standard options that can be found in the Menus section of the Layer Controls page. However, there is one option that is unique to this display.

The Edit menu has this unique option:

The View menu has these unique options:


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