On 31/08/2014, 11:12 PM, Gareth Davies wrote: > > I have been using rgl to view xyz point clouds containing topographic > data ( with around 10^5 - 10^6 points). > > It's working well aside from one thing: I would like to be able to zoom > into an arbitrary part of the plot. However so far I could only figure > out how to zoom into the centre. > > See the example below -- in this case, I cannot 'zoom-in' to anything > other than the central hill in the topography, whereas I would like to > be able to zoom to an arbitrary location. > > Is there a way to get around this?
Yes, you can manually set the userMatrix transformation. See ?par3d for a discussion about how rgl figures out what to display. See the example in ?rgl.setMouseCallbacks for some code that does something like what you want. There are plans to make this a little simpler in the next major release, but no definite release date. Duncan Murdoch > > ########################################## > # EXAMPLE CODE > ########################################## > library(rgl) > # Make up some topography > x=runif(1e+06, min=0,max=1000) > y=runif(1e+06, min=0,max=1000) > # Elevation with 'hill' in the centre > z=sin(x/50.)+cos(y/50.) + 30*exp(-((x-500)^2+(y-500)^2)*0.001) > plot3d(x,y,z,col=z+3,aspect=FALSE) > # Now try zooming [right mouse button]. I can only zoom into the central > hill, not elsewhere. > > > Below are the details of my R Install > > > sessionInfo() > R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) > Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] rgl_0.93.1098 unstructInterp_0.0-1 rgeos_0.3-6 > [4] rgdal_0.8-16 sp_1.0-15 geometry_0.3-4 > [7] magic_1.5-6 abind_1.4-0 SearchTrees_0.5.2 > [10] roxygen2_4.0.1 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] digest_0.6.4 grid_3.1.1 lattice_0.20-29 Rcpp_0.11.2 > [5] stringr_0.6.2 tools_3.1.1 > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.