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The
READ_WAVE procedure reads a
.wave
or
.bwave
file created by the
Wavefront Advanced Data Visualizer into an series of IDL variables.
This routine is written in the IDL language. Its source code can be found in the file
read_wave.pro
in the
lib
subdirectory of the IDL distribution.
A named variable that will contain a block of the variables contained in the wavefront file. Since each variable in a wavefront file can have more than one field (for instance, a vector variable has 3 fields), the fields of each variable make up the major index into the variable block. For instance, if a Wavefront file had one scalar variable and one vector variable, the scalar would be extracted as follows:
scalar_variable = variables[0,*,*,*]
and the vector variable would be extracted as follows:
vector_variable = variables[1:3,*,*,*]
To find the dimensions of the returned variable, see the description of the Dimensions argument.
A named variable that will contain a long array describing how many fields in the large returned variable block each variable occupies. In the above example of one scalar variable followed by a vector variable, the dimension variable would be
[1,3]
.
This indicates that the first field of the returned variable block would be the scalar variable and the following 3 fields would comprise the vector variable.