THERION(1) General Commands Manual THERION(1)NAME
loch -- Therion model viewer
SYNOPSIS
loch
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents loch, which is part of the therion-viewer package.
loch is a 3D viewer which displays .lox files produced by therion and allows them to be examined.
OPTIONS
loch takes no options.
BASIC CONTROL
Key and Mouse Controls
Function Mouse action Key
Zoom & Rotate Left click + drag
Zoom only Left click + drag up/down, then hold left and click right Ctrl + Up/Down
Rotate only Left click + drag left/right, then hold left and click right Left/Right
Pan Right click + drag Shift + Arrows
Tilt Middle (wheel) click + drag or wheel rotate Up/Down
Full screen Left double click F11
Context menu Right click
If continuous rotation is turned on, then rotation mouse movements change the speed or direction of rotation. If rotation is locked, then
rotation mouse movements have no effect.
OFF SCREEN RENDERING
Loch is able to render large bitmaps that can be afterwards post processed and printed. Bitmaps can be exported in PDF, PNG or BMP formats.
Configuration of export is done via the Rendering setup dialog. You can set the following features:
Size and Scaling
Screen shot: Screen copy will be saved into a file with no other changes.
Image width: The screen image will be exported with the specified width.
Image height: The screen image will be exported with the specified height.
Scale: The screen image will be exported with the specified scale.
Image options
Rendering resolution: Resolution of the image file used when image size or scale are specified.
Image size: Image size in pixels and uncompressed bytes calculated from previous settings.
White background: Force white background in exported image.
KNOWN BUGS
Sometimes empty rectangles appear in off screen rendered file. Changing the window size usually helps.
* Crashes have been observed on intel graphics cards unless the
texture initialisations are removed in the code.
* Stereo mode does not work correctly on some graphics adapters.
* This help does not work.
SEE ALSO
therion (1), xtherion (1).
For full information see the Therion Manual in /usr/doc/therion/thbook which describes therion-viewer and its use in detail.
AUTHOR
This manual page was adapted from existing docs by Wookey wookey@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission
is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence, Version 2 or any later ver-
sion published by the Free Software Foundation.
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aweather - Advanced weather reporting program
SYNOPSIS
aweather [-hoaf] [-d level] [-s site] [-t time]
DESCRIPTION
AWeather is a advanced weather reporting program which is designed to be used by weather enthusiasts. AWeather is not another weather
dockapp that simply displays a pre-computed forecast. It is designed to be an easy to use program that integrates a variety of weather data
in simple unified interface; see features for more details.
OPTIONS -h, --help
Show usage.
-d, --debug=level
Change default log level*, a debug level ranges from 0 to 5. A debug level of 5 is recommended only for debugging purposes.
-s, --site=site
Set initial site. The site should be given as a WSR88D site code such as KLSX.
-t, --time=time
Set initial time. The time format should be provided in the YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM format.
-o, --offline
Run in offline mode, AWeather will not attempt to connect to the internet to download radar files but will show the closest matching
cached file.
-a, --autoupdate
Run in autoupdate mode, AWeather will periodically poll data servers for updated information.
-f, --fullscreen
Run in fullscreen mode, AWeather start up using the entire screen as he main display area. Toolbars and side panels are hidden by
default and can be accessed by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen.
KEY BINDINGS
h, j, k, l, Left, Down, Up, Right
Pan the surface of the earth left, down, up, or right.
i, o, +, -, Scroll up, Scroll down
Zoom towards or away from the surface of the earth.
J, K
Zoom Rotate the camera back or forward. If looking across the surface of the earth, J will point the camera towards ground while K will
point the camera towards the sky.
H, L
Rotate the counter clockwise or clockwise around the vertical axes. If looking across the surface of the earth, H will pan to the left
while L will pan to the right.
w
Draw a wire frame of the earth for debugging purposes.
q
Exit AWeather.
Tab
Cycle through available plugins.
CTRL-R
Refresh all map data.
MOUSE MOTION
Left-click and drag
Pan the surface of the earth.
Middle-click and drag
Zoom towards (up) or away (down) from the surface of the earth.
Right-click and drag
Rotate the camera around the vertical and horizontal axes.
EXAMPLES
Start AWeather in offline mode and center the map on the St. Louis radar.
$ aweather -s KLSX -o
SEE ALSO grits-demo(1)BUGS
Many
AUTHOR
Andy Spencer <andy753421@gmail.com>
Author.
02/09/2012 AWEATHER(1)