[yt-users] line profile available?

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Geoffrey,

Try the ortho_ray or ray objects -- they are documented under the
"available objects" section and I think they'll do what you want.

-Matt

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:24 PM,  <gso at physics.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>  I was wondering if anyone has done plotting of a single field over a
> line of sight from point0 (x0,y0,z0) to point1 (z1,y1,z1)?  (I guess
> this is similar to a spectrum generator, but couldn't find info on it on
> the doc page)
>
>  The simplest way of doing this that I can think of with the existing
> tools is to generate a "aligned cutting plane" slice that contains the
> two points in the orthogonal plane, and use the colorbar as an indicator
> of the values in the field.
>
>  The 2nd method I thought of, is to make an YT object including all the
> cells that is crossed by the line of sight from point0 to point1.  on
> the x axis plot the distance sqrt(x^2+y^2+z^2), the y axis plot the
> field value in that cell.  But the problem I have with this method is I
> don't know how to construct such an object to begin with.
>
>  I'll play around with the first method, but I think the second method is
> what I really want, so any help or work-around would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> From
> G.S.
>
>
>
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