Visualizing Data

It is often important to obtain a visual representation of the data elements that make up an array or parallel object. In Prism, you can create visualizers that provide standard representations of variables or expressions. For example,

• In the text representation, the data is shown as numbers or characters.

• In the colormap representation, each data element is mapped to a color, based on a range of values and a color map that you specify. (This representation is available only on color workstations.)

• In the threshold representation, each data element is mapped to either black or white, based on a cutoff value that you can specify.

A data navigator lets you manipulate the display window relative to the data being visualized. Options are available that let you update a visualizer or save a snapshot of it.

See Chapter 5, Visualizing Data for a discussion of visualizing data. " Visualizing Multiple Processes in MP Prism" covers aspects of visualization unique to MP Prism.