Vis5d back to life (no sound)

Vis5d is a nice program do visualize 3D grided datasets, but it is also very old and not maintained anymore (fork on sourceforge was last updated in April 2002).

I just got it back to work on my Ubuntu 11.04 64bits. In this example I used my own improved version of grads_2_vis5d to show 10 days of 6hr field from ECMWF ERA Interin reanalysis. Cloud field is shown in yellow, liquid water in clouds in orange, and vectors are the wind field.

For those interested, check my github repo:
https://github.com/hmjbarbosa/grads2vis5d

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Vis5d
• grads
• ERA Interin
• clouds
• software tutorial

[hmjbarbosa]

For those that might ask: the movie was produced by recording the desktop. I used "recordMyDesktop", that produced a *.ogv file, and then mencoder to convert it to *.avi: mencoder out.ogv -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -o final.avi