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# Directory Listing of Routines

# general/spedas_tools/flipbookify

- SPD_FLIPBOOKIFY
  Turns the current tplot window into a "flipbook" containing:
- SPD_TIMES_FROM_TOP_PANEL
  Returns the times from the top panel in the current tplot window

# Routine Descriptions

## SPD_FLIPBOOKIFY

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     PROCEDURE:
         spd_flipbookify

     PURPOSE:
         Turns the current tplot window into a "flipbook" containing:

         1) the current figure (vertical line at each time step)
         2) distribution slices at each time step

     KEYWORDS:
         trange: limit the time range of plots produced (will draw a box around trange by default)

         xrange:  two-element array specifying x-axis range for the slices
         yrange:  two-element array specifying y-axis range for the slices
         zrange:  two-element array specifying z-axis range for the slices

         slices: three-element array specifying the slices to plot:
             'BV':  The x axis is parallel to B field; the bulk velocity defines the x-y plane
             'BE':  The x axis is parallel to B field; the B x V(bulk) vector defines the x-y plane
             'xy':  (default) The x axis is along the data's x axis and y is along the data's y axis
             'xz':  The x axis is along the data's x axis and y is along the data's z axis
             'yz':  The x axis is along the data's y axis and y is along the data's z axis
             'xvel':  The x axis is along the data's x axis; the x-y plane is defined by the bulk velocity
             'perp':  The x axis is the bulk velocity projected onto the plane normal to the B field; y is B x V(bulk)
             'perp_xy':  The data's x & y axes are projected onto the plane normal to the B field
             'perp_xz':  The data's x & z axes are projected onto the plane normal to the B field
             'perp_yz':  The data's y & z axes are projected onto the plane normal to the B field

             default: ['xy', 'xz', 'yz']

         three_d_interp: use the 3D interpolation method (default)
         two_d_interp: use the 2D interpolation method
         geometric: use the geometric interpolation method

         custom_rotation: Applies a custom rotation matrix to the data.  Input may be a
                       3x3 rotation matrix or a tplot variable containing matrices.
                       If the time window covers multiple matrices they will be averaged.
                       This is applied before other transformations

         /energy: produce energy slices instead of velocity slices

         thickness: thickness of the vertical line drawn at each time step
         linestype: style of the vertical line drawn at each time step

         note: box_* keywords require that you specify a trange
         box_color: color of the box
         box_style: linestyle of the box
         box_thickness: thickness of the box
         /no_box: disable the box

         left_margin: adjust the left-margin of the output images
         right_margin: adjust the right-margin of the output images (where the
             slices are stored)

         title: title of the plot; accepts common time string formats, e.g.,
             title="YYYY-MM-DD/hh:mm:ss.fff"

         seconds: specify the # of seconds for each slice
             (e.g., seconds=1.5 -> plot at every 1.5 seconds)
         time_step: integer specifying the interval to produce plots at
             (e.g., time_step=1 -> plot at every time, time_step=2 -> every other time, etc)

         /postscript: save the images as postscript files instead of PNGs

         output_dir: directory where the plots are saved (default: 'flipbook/')
         filename_suffix: suffix to append to the end of the newly created files

         /video: save the sequence of images as a video (.mp4) - currently only works for PNG
         vid_format: format of the output video; default .mp4;
             (options include: avi flv gif matroska mjpeg mov mp4 swf wav webm)
         vid_fps: frames per second for the video; default: 6

     NOTES:

        - experimental, work in progress! email problems to: egrimes@igpp.ucla.edu

        - the default time steps are taken from the first panel in the current window
          warning: if this happens to be a full day of srvy mode MMS FGM data,
          this will produce > 1 million plots, one at each FGM data point - use the
          time_step or seconds keywords to avoid this, e.g.,
               time_step=10000 for one plot per 10,000 FGM data points
               seconds=6 for one plot every 6 seconds

     $LastChangedBy: egrimes $
     $LastChangedDate: 2023-05-25 11:45:55 -0700 (Thu, 25 May 2023) $
     $LastChangedRevision: 31869 $
     $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/trunk/general/spedas_tools/flipbookify/spd_flipbookify.pro $

(See general/spedas_tools/flipbookify/spd_flipbookify.pro)

## SPD_TIMES_FROM_TOP_PANEL

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     FUNCTION:
             spd_times_from_top_panel

     PURPOSE:
             Returns the times from the top panel in the current tplot window

    $LastChangedBy: egrimes $
    $LastChangedDate: 2018-08-09 15:30:24 -0700 (Thu, 09 Aug 2018) $
    $LastChangedRevision: 25621 $
    $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/trunk/general/spedas_tools/flipbookify/spd_times_from_top_panel.pro $

(See general/spedas_tools/flipbookify/spd_times_from_top_panel.pro)