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Orthoslice Solid Contours

This Actor generates solid contours for a quantity on an orthoslice –– a slice plane of the Domain volume that is orthogonal to the Domain's X, Y, or Z axis.

Virtualwind uses "SliceOrientation" to set the axis (i.e., X, Y, or Z) that the orthoslice is orthogonal to and uses "SliceIndex" to choose a particular slice in that orientation. For example, if you have set the wind resolution to be 32 x 64 x 128 then you will have available SliceIndex's in the range [0, 31], [0, 63], and [0, 127] for the X, Y, and Z SliceOrientations, respectively.

Solid contours are filled contours of the magnitude of a certain quantity on a surface. For a chosen quantity, this Actor automatically extracts the minimum and maximum values on the specified orthoslice and allows you to specify the number of contours you want to construct within this range.

You can also customize the minimum and maximum limits used to color map the contours to highlight a particular value range. When you do this, you have the option to clip off the contours that are out of the defined range. By default, the limits for color mapping are set to the extracted minimum and maximum values.

The following figure shows an example of solid contours of the wind velocity on an orthoslice parallel to the XY plane of the Domain with the custom color map limits set to 0~13m/s (the extracted maximum mean speed on this slice was 18.55m/s).