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The original Rickmovie was very effective in displaying
3-D cubes, but it wasn't good at
handling four and five dimensional datasets.
Viewing dimensions larger than three is generally a challenging
problem. Rather than create a set viewing method I instead added
the ability to have multiple, linked, views within one Ricksep session.
Each view can contain the same or a different, equivalent sized dataset,
and can correspond to any possible combination of up to five axes.
As expected adding this level of flexibility quickly causes
an explosion in the number of parameters to the program, and leads
to what amounts to the development of a scripting language. To allow
easy uses of these features I created three simple perl scripts for
some of the most common display possibilities.
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Stanford Exploration Project
9/18/2001