Analysis Enhancements

What's New in IDL 6.4: New Features in IDL 6.4

Analysis Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to IDL's data-analysis functionality for the 6.4 release:

Color Mapping Functionality

Edge Detection Filters

Noise Functions

Statistics Enhancements to COMFIT

Color Mapping Functionality

Five new color mapping functions have been added to IDL 6.4. These are:

COLOR_EXCHANGE

COLOR_RANGE_MAP

COLORIZE_SAMPLE

COLORMAP_GRADIENT

COLORMAP_ROTATION

Additionally, COLOR_CONVERT has been enhanced to include more color spaces.

For more information, see New IDL Routines and IDL Routine Enhancements.

Edge Detection Filters

Five new filters in IDL enhance edge detection capabilities. These are:

EDGE_DOG

EMBOSS

LAPLACIAN

PREWITT

SHIFT_DIFF

For more information, see New IDL Routines.

Noise Functions

Four new noise functions have been added to IDL. These are:

NOISE_HURL

NOISE_PICK

NOISE_SCATTER

NOISE_SLUR

For more information, see New IDL Routines.

Statistics Enhancements to COMFIT

This release contains new keywords to COMFIT allowing for enhanced output statistics. For more information on these new keywords, see IDL Routine Enhancements.

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