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Prism User's Guide - CSAIL People - MIT

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Chapter 5. Vualizing Data<br />

By default <strong>Prism</strong> uses the entire range of values for all these representations.<br />

Threshold - For threshold representations, use this variable to specify<br />

the value at which <strong>Prism</strong> is to change the display from black to white. Data<br />

elements whose values are at or below the threshold are displayed as<br />

black; data elements whose values are above the threshold are displayed<br />

as white. By default, <strong>Prism</strong> uses the mean of the data as the threshold.<br />

Displaying a Ruler<br />

Choose Ruler from the Options menu to toggle the display of a ruler around the<br />

data in the display window. The ruler is helpful in showing which elements are<br />

being displayed. Figure 27 shows a 3-dimensional threshold visualizer with the<br />

ruler displayed.<br />

In the surface representation, the ruler cannot indicate the coordinates of elements<br />

in the vertical axis, since they change depending on the height of each<br />

element. However, you can press the Shift key and left-click as described above<br />

to display the coordinates and value of an element.<br />

Version 1.2, March 1993<br />

Copyright 0 1993 Thinking Machines Corporation<br />

Figure 27. A threshold visualizer with a ruler.<br />

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