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Contents

 
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Supported Data Formats
    • 1.1.1 Converting Other Data Formats to Karma Format
    • 1.1.2 Converting Between Data Formats
    • 1.1.3 Loading partial files
  • 1.2 Adding your own Data Formats
  • 1.3 Units
  • Co-ordinate Systems
• 2 Common Features
  • 2.1 Loading Data
    • 2.1.1 Subsetting/Decimation of Array Data
  • 2.2 Intensity Scaling
  • 2.3 Sequences of Images
  • 2.4 Hardcopies
  • 2.5 Exporting Data
  • 2.6 Zooming
  • 2.7 Resizing/autoscaling
  • 2.8 Axis Labels
  • 2.9 Magnifying Glass
  • 2.10 Panner
  • 2.11 Spectrum Profiles
    • Zooming in TracePopup Widget
  • 2.12 Image Statistics
  • 2.13 Viewing Header Information
  • 2.14 Freezing Events
  • 2.15 Common Image Display Features
    • The Magnifier
    • The Panner
    • Zooming in the ImageDisplay Widget
    • Image Statistics in the ImageDisplay Widget
    • Viewing Header Information in the ImageDisplay Widget
    • Capturing Co-ordinate positions in the ImageDisplay Widget
  • 2.16 Generating Moment Maps
  • 2.17 Cursor Readout
    • 2.17.1 Warning for Astronomers
  • GUI Command-line Switches
    • 2.18.1 Avoiding Colourmap Flashing
      • Summary
  • 2.19 Drawing Overlays
    • Drawing Rectangles
    • Drawing Ellipses
    • Drawing Polygons
  • 2.20 Loading Overlays
  • 2.21 Editing Images
• 3 Viewing and Comparing multiple Images and Cubes
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 View Control
  • 3.3 Data Browser
    • Browser Controls
    • Data List
    • Data Replacement
    • Array List
    • Detailed Array Information
    • Array Configuration
    • Advanced Control Panel
    • Make Data Control Panel
    • Annotation List
    • Detailed Annotation Information
    • Annotation Configuration
  • Command-line Options
  • Intensity-Intensity Scatter Plots
  • 3.6 Renzograms, an alternative to velocity fields
• 4 Viewing Images and Cubes with the Multibeam
  • Command-line Options
  • 4.2 Special Movies
  • 4.3 Multiple Contour Images
  • Intensity-Intensity Scatter Plots
• 5 Volume Rendering a Cube
  • 5.1 How the rendering is done
    • 5.1.1 Shaders
  • 5.2 Starting up the Volume Rendering Tool
    • 5.2.1 Options
  • 5.3 Loading Data into xray
  • 5.4 The main control window
    • 5.4.1 Rendering Modes
    • 5.4.2 Rotating the cube
  • 5.5 Making a Movie
  • 5.6 Filtering your data
    • 5.6.1 Adaptive Filtering
    • 5.6.2 Contintuum Subtraction
    • 5.6.3 Other Controls
  • 5.7 Hot Gas Substances control panel
  • 5.8 Hot Gas Mono control panel
  • 5.9 Hot Gas Continuous control panel
  • 5.10 Hot Gas Three Colour control panel
• kpvslice: interactive position-velocity slicing
  • 6.1 How to use it
    • 6.1.1 Viewing Profiles
  • 6.2 Extracting Slices From An Image
  • Command-line Options
  • 6.4 Algorithmic Details
    • 6.4.1 How the Slice is Computed
• 7 kslice_3d: slicing data cubes
  • 7.1 Precompute
  • 7.2 Magnifications
• 8 kshell: looking for expanding shells
• koords: interactive co-ordinate fitting
  • 9.1 Centring Algorithm
• kpolar: regridding to polar co-ordinates
• 11 Superimposing Images
  • 11.1 Image and Contours
  • 11.2 Hue and Intensity
  • 11.3 Intensity and Intensity
• Command-line Tools
  • 12.1 Common Interface
  • 12.2 Interactive Mode
    • 12.2.1 Actions
    • 12.2.2 Scalar Parameters
    • 12.2.3 Vector Parameters
    • 12.2.4 Choice Parameters
    • 12.2.5 ``Eternal'' Actions
    • 12.2.6 Other Arguments
    • 12.2.7 Exiting Interactive Mode
  • 12.3 Batch Mode
    • 12.3.1 Passing in Parameters and Actions
    • 12.3.2 Passing in Strings
    • 12.3.3 Passing in Negative Values
    • 12.3.4 Passing in Other Arguments
  • 12.4 Saving and Restoring Parameters
  • 12.5 List of Tasks
    • 12.5.1 chlen
      • Examples
    • 12.5.2 images2karma
    • 12.5.3 karma2ppm
      • Writing other Image Formats
      • Changing the Output Image Size
    • 12.5.4 kdecimate
    • 12.5.5 kminmax
    • 12.5.6 kprinthead
    • 12.5.7 kregrid
    • 12.5.8 krotate
    • 12.5.9 ksend
    • send-contours
• A Chromatic Aberration
• B Setting up
  • B.1 Environments needed
  • B.2 Operating Systems
• C Resources
• D Annotation File Format
  • D.1 Usage
  • D.2 Fundamental Syntax
  • D.3 Annotation Commands
    • Non-Graphical Commands
    • D.3.2 Attribute Commands
    • D.3.3 Object Commands
    • D.3.4 Position Angle Conventions
  • D.4 Example Annotation File
• E Making Videos
  • E.1 Basic Facilities at the ATNF
  • E.2 Using Sydney University VisLab Facilities
• F Acknowledgements
• G Quirks and Unexpected Behaviour
• H Undocumented Features
• Index