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

[Renate Hartog]

Just to follow up: yes, the problem was with the topography grd-file. It
was made using xyz2grd from some ascii format file of unknown provenance. I
remade the topography file using grdraster. No more grey lines.

Renate

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Renate Hartog <jrhartog at uw.edu> wrote:

> 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)
>> USGS Did You Feel It?   http://earthquake.usgs.gov/**earthquakes/dyfi<http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi>
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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
>>>>
>>>> Tel. +1-206-685-7079 <tel:%2B1-206-685-7079> (office)
>>>>
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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
>
> Tel. +1-206-685-7079 (office)
>
>


-- 
Renate Hartog
Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of Washington
Box 351310
Seattle, WA 98195

Tel. +1-206-685-7079 (office)
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