[Shake-dev] getting rid of ugly grid lines?

[Renate Hartog]

Thanks both!

I checked and the .ps files have the same problem.

Bruce's reply made me look more at our specific setup and I'm now
suspecting a problem with the topography grd-file...

-Renate

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Vince Quitoriano <vinceq at usgs.gov> wrote:

>
> Renate, Bruce,
>
> I've had a similar problem before, but the lines were not nearly
> as bad. Do they show up in the Postscript files? My particular issue
> was in the JPEG conversion, and cleared up when I played with
> the compression rating and the Postscript background color
> (for some reason changing the background from 255/255/255 to
> 254/254/254 solved it.) Not sure if you have the same problem
> but it might help.
>
> --
> Vince Quitoriano (vinceq at usgs.gov)
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>
>
> On 11/21/11 5:47 PM, Bruce Worden wrote:
>
>> Hi Renate,
>>
>> I've never seen anything like that before. Not only are the lines huge
>> and uncalled for, they don't even line up with the primary or secondary
>> frame or annotation intervals. The vertical ones don't seem to
>> correspond to anything at all.
>>
>> I don't think the problem stems from your GRID_CROSS_* defaults. On my
>> system they are 0c, and I don't get anything like that.
>>
>> Can you run mapping with -verbose and send the output to me.
>>
>> I'll look at it, but in the meantime, you might consider posting the map
>> on the GMT help board and see if anyone there knows what might be
>> causing it. They're usually pretty responsive.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Renate Hartog wrote:
>>
>>  Hello Bruce,
>>>
>>> Is there a mapping option that I can use to get rid of these ugly grid
>>> lines on my pga and pgv plots?
>>>
>>> I tried removing my .gmtdefaults4 file and rerunning, but no change.
>>> Just updated to the latest version of everything and still there.
>>>
>>> my map_axes : a60mf30m/a30mf30mWSen
>>>
>>> After I run shakemap, a new .gmtdefaults4 file is created which has
>>> these values:
>>> GRID_CROSS_SIZE_PRIMARY = 0i
>>> GRID_PEN_PRIMARY = 0.25p
>>> GRID_CROSS_SIZE_SECONDARY = 0i
>>> GRID_PEN_SECONDARY = 0.5p
>>>
>>> I think I get these grids because the grid_cross_size is set to 0.
>>> However, changing them in the .gmtdefaults4 file in SHAKE_HOME also
>>> makes no difference.
>>>
>>> GMT version 4.5.0
>>>
>>> (btw, the grid is not plotted on intensity plots).
>>>
>>> thanks, Renate
>>>
>>> --
>>> Renate Hartog
>>> Research Scientist
>>> Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
>>> Department of Earth and Space Sciences
>>> University of Washington
>>> Box 351310
>>> Seattle, WA 98195
>>>
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Renate Hartog
Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of Washington
Box 351310
Seattle, WA 98195

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