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Appendix II: Other tips and tricks
This is just a series of examples of techniques that you might like to use and some answers to some common questions.
Subsections
Contours on images
Colorbars
Plotting wind vectors
Plotting 3D surfaces
Loops and how to avoid them
Dimensional Juggling (from David Fanning)
Array concatenation (from David Fanning)
The Histogram routine
Other questions
Manipulating data: rotation, transposing, extracting subsets of...
Gif files in IDL
Resizing images
Functions and procedures - where to use which
Manipulating strings
NetCDF (from Justin Peter)
Reading NetCDF (from Justin Peter)
Adapting built-in IDL code
John Marsham 2009-12-07