Surface Plot

The Surface plot tool gives the user the ability to take an image or part of an image within the CIF Viewer and manipulate its position to view all of its properties from all angles.

Using the Surface Plot Tool

Drag and drop the tool directly into the CIF Viewer. ROI Example
This will place a "Region of Interest" (ROI) onto the image in the screen.
The user may manipulate this ROI to fit into whatever part of the image they wish to view by draging it around the screen or by stretching out the ROI from the corners or sides.





Another image will appear on the screen in the form of the "Surface Plot" box.
When the parameters (explained below) for the tool are set to "0" the Surface Plot image will appear the same as the image that the ROI is capturing.
 
When the Parameters are not set to "0" the image will appear in a 3D plane and will appear with the degree dimensions that the user specified. For example it may appear this way:

Parameters

To bring up the parameters page right-click within the ROI box. The "Surface Plot" page is the parameters page for this tool.
Scale X, Y, and Z: changing these can accentuate a certain plane/axis. It will make the changed axis longer/larger and more defined.
Roll, Pitch, and Yaw: These positions rotate the image by degrees according to its X, Y, or Z axis to give the image in 3D.
Image Scale X, Y: these will shrink or enlarge the data depending on if the numbers are made larger or smaller.
Color: select this and hit apply to make the image appear in color. The user may not want to do this if the image is black or dark in color because the background for the surface plot image is black so the image will not appear. If the color option is not on the image will appear in white.

The Entity and Rectangle pages can be used to change the appearance of the ROI.