> > I'm happy to do the legwork, but am having trouble finding where the
> > relevant areas of code are. I'd really appreciate an overview of the
> > contour labelling algorithm and event structure, and also a description
> > of how the current contour fitting algorithm works.
>
> Actually, contours are composed of straight lines across
> each grid box. Say it is drawing the "10" contour. It finds
> two adjacent grid points above and below the value 10, then
> find the point on the connecting edge where the grid point
> values interpolate to 10. There must be 2 (or 4) edges with
> such interpolated 10 points in a grid box, and a straight
> line is drawn between them (2 straight lines for 4 points).
No worries. I had done some Googling, and this grid method for finding
contour edges seems to be fairly common. I suppose improvements would
come from finer grids, and more complex line-drawing.
I'll do this as a data renderer for now, and if I'm successful I'll post
back.
Thanks for the pointers,
-Tennessee
