Primary Display Option Menus
Along the top of the chart interface are six drop-down menus for selecting different display options.Materials Color Scheme
The first (left-most) drop-down menu allows users to select a color scheme for the material categories. The default setting is 'custom', which uses the material colors selected earlier in the TP Model Data Options menu.Top Surface Overlay
The 2nd menu is used to add an overlay of the DEM (Digital Elevation Model) to the top of model (select 'TPbmp_top.bmp' option). There is also an option to display the model top surface as a solid color. By default, there is no top suface overlay (i.e., the TP results are shown).Bottom Surface Overlay
The 3rd menu is similar to the 4th menu, but for the bottom surface of the model. Select the 'TPbmp_bot.bmp' option to show the bottom model cells.Boreholes Toggle
The 4th (right-most) drop-down menu is for toggling on/off categorized boreholes in the display. This is often used in conjunction with Cropping (i.e., hiding a portion of the results to see "inside" the model - see below) or when creating 2D slices across the model domain.Selecting 'Well Only' will display the categorized boreholes as vertical lines; 'Tubing On' will display the boreholes as 3D cylinders (this make take time to load if there is a large number of boreholes).
Other Display Options
Isosurface
Used for visualization of concentration plumes and other continous variable distributions. (More details coming soon.)Volume
Under this sub-option the user can select which 3D volume layers to show or hide in the graphic(check box to show; uncheck box to hide):Grid - add model grid lines (cell edges)
Top - model top cells (recall: in some places in the model, the domain extends higher than the simulated spatial variability, e.g., where the top of the borehole is at a land elevation that is lower than the surronding area.)
Bot - grayish-blue cells along the bottom are the parts of model domain where the simulated results do not extend (e.g., these cells might represent the bedrock below unconsolidated sediments)
Volume - 3D volume of simulated results (full or cropped)
Light - shading for the 3D volume
Cropping
Interactively crop the model in the X- (west-east), Y- (north-south), and Z- (vertical) directions using the interactive sliders underneath I, J, K. Two sliders are provided to control cropping from either side in a particular direction. The default is no cropping in any of the directions (top slider is "empty"; bottom slider is "full").Overlay
These text fields are used to raise or lower the top and bottom overlay surfaces by an offset. A positive offset raises the surface; a negative value lowers the surface. By default, very small offset is applied to the top and bottom overlays (+0.5 and -0.5+, respectively).Multiple Slicing
This features allows creating multiple cross-sections and displaying them in the 3D display. To use it, enter the indices from the model grid along which you would like to draw the slice (cross-section).For example, to draw an cross-section in the x-direction (from west-to-east) along the J=10 cell (10th cell in y-direction), you would enter a 10 in the text field next to 'I-direction'. To add two cross sections in the y-direction (from north-to-south) along the the I=5 and I=15 cells (5th and 15th cells in the x-direction), you would enter 5,15 in the text field next to 'J-direction. And so on...
Leave the text field empty for no slicing in a particular direction.
NOTE: To see the slices, you may need to uncheck the 'Volume' box under the Volume sub-option.