Mira provides tools for plotting images in various
1-D and 3-D formats, including intensity profiles, line cuts,
histograms, radial intensity profiles, contours, and surface plots.
Tools are also provided for plotting data tabulated in the
Grid Control of a
Report Window or
Measurement Pane. These commands originate in the
Image Plot Toolbar,
Grid Context Menu, and other menus. The scripting
language also provides a broad selection of plotting commands. See
the
Mira Pro x64 Scripting Language.
Mira provides several ways to display data in the
form of a graph. For this, Mira Pro x64 provides both the
Plot window interface and the
Chart window interface as shown below. Plots are
often created to show the relationship between image intensity and
position, known as a Profile Plot, but several other plot types are
available for images. Click here to view
examples plotting image data.
Plot Types
A Profile Plot is a graph of pixel values
along a line through an image. This line may be parallel to the
column direction, parallel to the row direction, or along an
arbitrary direction. These are referred to as a Column Profile, Row
Profile, and a Line Profile, respectively. Mira can plot not just a
line of row or column data but also an average column or row or all
columns or rows. In addition, if an image set is opened, you can
choose to plot these quantities for every image in the set. Mira
can create plots showing data in the following forms.
Additionally, Mira supports these plot types having
more than 1 dimension:
The
3-D Surface command plots display a surface
representation of an image. Surface plots are generated in a 3-D
Plot window rather than in a Plot window.
The
Contour command plots show continuous curves that
trace constant levels of image brightness. They are generated as an
overlay on the displayed image and not in a Plot Window.
The
Interactive Contour Plot command adds a single
contour at the level where you click on the image.
Plot and Chart Name Suffixes
[CP]
Column Plot along a single column in one or more
images.
[RP]
Row Plot along a single row in one or more
images.
[ACP]
Average Column Plot along an average of parallel
columns in one or more images.
[ARP]
Average Row Plot along an average of parallel rows
in one or more images.
[Line]
Line plot along a general direction.
[Hist]
Histogram Plot
[Rad]
Radial Profile Plot
[3-D]
3-D surface or wireframe plot of the rectangular
region inside the image cursor.
[Series]
Pixel Series Plot for pixels in a series of
images.
[BitHist]
Bit Histogram Plot.
ChartN
Chart windows use an auto-incrementing name based
on "Chart" and a number N, starting with Chart1, then Chart2,
Chart3, and so on.
