Image Display, Plotting, and Interaction

VISTA provides a number of commands for the graphical display of data. These include image display programs like TV, and a range of plotting programs:

TV
Load and image into the display
IMPOST
Make a PostScript hardcopy of an image
TVRPLOT
Make a Radial Intensity Plot of an object on the TV Display
TVBOX
Overlay a VISTA box on the image display.
TVPLOT
Draw stuff like lines, boxes, text, and so on onto the TV display
PLOT
Plot a row, column or spectrum
RPLOT
Make a radial intensity plot of an object in an image
CONTOUR
Make a contour plot of an image.
PLOT3D
Make a 3-d perspective (mesh) plot
OVERLAY
Draw contours over a greyscale image (PostScript)
HISTOGRAM
Display a Histogram of Image Pixel Values
TEXT
Embed Permanent Text on an Image
Each of these is described in separate help files below. VISTA makes use of native X11 graphics, the LickMongo plotting package, and PostScript for all of its graphics.



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