AIPS HELP file for DOCIRCLE in 31DEC26
As of Sat Mar 14 14:20:47 2026
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DOCIRCLE
Type: Adverb (logical, > 0 => true)
Use: If True, do some operation in a "circular" manner, if
false do it in a linear manner.
Null Value: False (-1)
Verbs:
REMOVIE.......Rerun a previously loaded movie (as TVMOVIE).
TVCUBE........Verb to load a cube into tv channel(s) & run a movie.
DOCIRCLE used as in TVMOVIE.
TVHUEINT......Make a hue/intensity display from 2 TV channels.
DOCIRCLE differentiates between a circular set of
colors (blue -> red -> blue) and a linear color
spectrum (blue -> red only).
TVLABEL.......Label a TV image. DOCIRCLE controls whether the ticks
are drawn as short lines (false) or as a full
coordinate grid (true).
TVMOVIE.......Load a cube into TV channel(s) and run a movie.
DOCIRCLE true causes the movie to be an infinite loop
and false causes the movie to reverse direction at
each end.
Procedures:
CIRCLEVS......Sets RGBLEVS to fill LEVS with a circular color scheme.
DOCIRCLE true does a full circle of colors, false does
only blue to red.
Tasks:
CCNTR.........Generate a contour plot file from an image with CC or
MF plotted. DOCIRCLE used as in TVLABEL.
CNTR..........Plot a contour representation of an image; as TVLABEL.
CONPL.........Plots AIPS gridding convolution functions; as TVLABEL.
DFTPL.........Plots DFT of a UV data set at arbitrary point versus
time; as TVLABEL.
GREYS.........Plot a grey-scale representation of an image.
DOCIRCLE used as in TVLABEL.
HUINT.........Make RGB image from images of intensity & hue, like
TVHUEINT; used as in TVLABEL.
KNTR..........Make a contour/grey plot file from an image w multiple
panels; used as in TVLABEL.
PCNTR.........Plot a contour plus vector representation of an
image. DOCIRCLE used as in TVLABEL.
PFPL1.........Paraform Task to generate a plot file: (does grey
scale); DOCIRCLE used as in TVLABEL.
PLAYR.........Task to load one or two images and play with them on
the TV; as in TVLABEL.
PROFL.........Plot a perspective representation of an image.
DOCIRCLE used as in TVLABEL.
TVHUI.........Make TV image from images of intensity, hue,
saturation. DOCIRCLE true plots with a full circle of
hues, false uses only blue to red.
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