how the 'box' can fill the display

[Stuart Maclean]

Now that I have finally understood the Affine Transform operations 
applied to the graphics2D object inside VisadCanvasJ2D, I can see that 
if you do this

w = display's width
h = display's height

ProjectionControl pc = display.getProjectionControl();
double ax, ay;
if(  w > h  ) {
	ax = (float)w / h;
	ay = 1;
	} else {
	ay = (float)h / w;
	ax = 1;
	}
pc.setAspect( new double[] { ax * 0.5/0.33, ay * 0.5/0.33 } );

then the 'box' (display real type values -1 -> 1 ) will fill the display 
component entirely, at least in the simple cases I have tested.  There 
may well be data-related times when this does not hold.

It appears to work since the idea is to get the final AT scaling and 
translation both to 0.5 of the width (and height).  The translation is 
already set to 0.5, we just need the scale factor from above, which when 
  concatted to the 0.33 scaling AT in the canvas, results in a scale of 
0.5 * width.  Then x = -1 in visad coords maps to pixel 0, and 1 maps to 
display width, so the box fills the display (??)

I thought this worth sharing, as I have seen requests for it in the past 
on the mailing list

Stuart
	

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