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psy-simple: The psyplot plugin for simple visualizations

https://psyplot.github.io/psy-simple

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NEW FEATURE: implement plotting a line when clicking on 2D plot #2

Open Chilipp opened 6 years ago

Chilipp commented 6 years ago

Summary

When clicking on a grid cell in a 2D plot of a 3D variable (or more), a line should be visualized (or a 2D plot in case of 4D data)

Reason

It helps to investigate what happens in a grid cells

Detailed explanation

Ideally, one create a new formatoption that can take the following values

False, nothing happens
True, a line plot will be generated for 3D and a 2D plot for a 4D variable, when clicking on a grid cell
str. Representing the dimension to use for a line plot for variables with more than 3D
[str, str]. Representing the 2 dimensions to use for a 2D plot for variables with more than 4D

Examples

ncview has this useful feature

Chilipp commented 4 years ago

strongly related to https://github.com/psyplot/psy-view/commit/4bec4c80016617c45fa9dc7d8bbaee6d86fcd8b7, https://github.com/psyplot/psy-view/issues/6 and the development of psy-view. Not sure yet, where this feature should live and how.