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NAME

       stilts-plot2cube - Draws a cube plot

SYNOPSIS

       stilts plot2cube [xpix=<int-value>] [ypix=<int-value>]
                        [insets=<top>,<left>,<bottom>,<right>] [omode=swing|out|cgi|discard|auto]
                        [storage=simple|memory|disk|policy|cache|basic-cache|persistent|parallel]
                        [seq=<suffix>[,...]] [legend=true|false] [legborder=true|false]
                        [legopaque=true|false] [legseq=<suffix>[,...]] [legpos=<xfrac,yfrac>]
                        [title=<value>] [auxmap=<map-name>|<color>-<color>[-<color>...]]
                        [auxclip=<lo>,<hi>] [auxflip=true|false] [auxquant=<number>]
                        [auxfunc=log|linear|histogram|histolog|sqrt|square|acos|cos]
                        [auxmin=<number>] [auxmax=<number>] [auxlabel=<text>] [auxcrowd=<factor>]
                        [auxwidth=<pixels>] [auxvisible=true|false] [forcebitmap=true|false]
                        [compositor=0..1] [animate=<table>] [afmt=<in-format>]
                        [astream=true|false] [acmd=<cmds>] [parallel=<int-value>]
                        [xlog=true|false] [ylog=true|false] [zlog=true|false] [xflip=true|false]
                        [yflip=true|false] [zflip=true|false] [xlabel=<text>] [ylabel=<text>]
                        [zlabel=<text>] [xcrowd=<number>] [ycrowd=<number>] [zcrowd=<number>]
                        [frame=true|false] [minor=true|false] [gridaa=true|false]
                        [texttype=plain|antialias|latex] [fontsize=<int-value>]
                        [fontstyle=standard|serif|mono]
                        [fontweight=plain|bold|italic|bold_italic] [xmin=<number>]
                        [xmax=<number>] [xsub=<lo>,<hi>] [ymin=<number>] [ymax=<number>]
                        [ysub=<lo>,<hi>] [zmin=<number>] [zmax=<number>] [zsub=<lo>,<hi>]
                        [phi=<degrees>] [theta=<degrees>] [psi=<degrees>] [zoom=<factor>]
                        [xoff=<pixels>] [yoff=<pixels>] [zoomaxes=[[x][y][z]]]
                        [zoomfactor=<number>] [leglabelN=<text>] [layerN=<layer-type> <layerN-
                        specific-params>]

DESCRIPTION

       plot2cube  draws  plots in a Cartesian 3-dimensional space. The plotting volume is a cube,
       which is viewed from the outside and usually bounded by an annotated wire frame.

       Positional coordinates are specified as x,  y,  z  triples,  e.g.:  plot2cube  layer1=mark
       in1=sim.fits x1=XPOS y1=YPOS z1=ZPOS

       Content  is  added  to  the  plot  by  specifying one or more plot layers using the layerN
       parameter. The N part is a suffix applied to all the parameters affecting a  given  layer;
       any  suffix  (including the empty string) may be used. Available layers for this plot type
       are: mark, size, sizexy, xyzvector, xyzerror, link2, mark2, poly4, mark4, polygon,  label,
       line3d, contour, spheregrid.

OPTIONS

       xpix=<int-value>
              Size  of the output image in the X direction in pixels. This includes space for any
              axis labels, padding and other decoration outside the plot area  itself.  See  also
              insets.

       ypix=<int-value>
              Size  of the output image in the Y direction in pixels. This includes space for any
              axis labels, padding and other decoration outside the plot area  itself.  See  also
              insets.

       insets=<top>,<left>,<bottom>,<right>
              Defines  the  amount of space in pixels around the actual plotting area. This space
              is used for axis labels, and other decorations and any left  over  forms  an  empty
              border.

              The  size  and position of the actual plotting area is determined by this parameter
              along with xpix and ypix.

              The   value   of    this    parameter    is    4    comma    separated    integers:
              <top>,<left>,<bottom>,<right>.  Any  or  all  of these values may be left blank, in
              which case the corresponding margin will be calculated automatically  according  to
              how much space is required.

       omode=swing|out|cgi|discard|auto
              Determines how the drawn plot will be output, see SUN/256.

                * swing:  Plot  will be displayed in a window on the screen. This plot is "live";
                  it can be resized and (except for old-style plots) navigated around with  mouse
                  actions in the same way as plots in TOPCAT.

                * out:  Plot  will  be  written  to a file given by out using the graphics format
                  given by ofmt.

                * cgi: Plot will be written in a way suitable for  CGI  use  direct  from  a  web
                  server.  The  output  is  in  the  graphics format given by ofmt, preceded by a
                  suitable "Content-type" declaration.

                * discard: Plot is drawn, but discarded. There is no output.

                * auto: Behaves as swing or out mode depending on presence of out parameter

       storage=simple|memory|disk|policy|cache|basic-cache|persistent|parallel
              Determines the way that data is accessed when constructing the plot. There are  two
              main  options, cached or not. If no caching is used then rows are read sequentially
              from the specified input table(s) every time  they  are  required.  This  generally
              requires  a  small  resource  footprint (though that can depend on how the table is
              specified) and makes sense if the data only needs to be scanned once or perhaps  if
              the  table  is  very  large. If caching is used then the required data is read once
              from the specified input table(s), then prepared and cached before any plotting  is
              performed,  and  plots  are done using this cached data. This may use a significant
              amount of storage for large tables but it's usually more sensible (faster)  if  the
              data  will  need  to be scanned multiple times. There are various options for cache
              storage.

              The options are:

                * simple: no caching, data read directly from input table

                * memory: cached to memory; OutOfMemoryError possible for very large plots

                * disk: cached to disk

                * policy: cached using application-wide default storage policy, which is  usually
                  adaptive (memory/disk hybrid)

                * persistent:  cached  to  persistent  files  on  disk,  in  the system temporary
                  directory (defined by system property java.io.tmpdir). If this  is  used,  plot
                  data  will  be  stored  on disk in a way that means they can be re-used between
                  STILTS invocations, so data preparation can be avoided on subsequent runs. Note
                  however it can leave potentially large files in your temporary directory.

                * cache: synonym for memory (backward compatibility)

                * basic-cache:  dumber  version  of  memory  (no optimisation for constant-valued
                  columns)

                * parallel: experimental version of memory-based cache that reads into the  cache
                  in  parallel  for  large  files. This will make the plot faster to prepare, but
                  interaction is a bit slower and sequence-dependent attributes of the  plot  may
                  not  come  out  right. This experimental option may be withdrawn or modified in
                  future releases.

              The default value is memory if a live plot is being generated (omode=swing),  since
              in  that  case  the  plot  needs  to  be  redrawn every time the user performs plot
              navigation actions or resizes the window, or  if  animations  are  being  produced.
              Otherwise (e.g. output to a graphics file) the default is simple.

       seq=<suffix>[,...]
              Contains  a  comma-separated list of layer suffixes to determine the order in which
              layers are drawn on the plot. This can affect which symbol are plotted on  top  of,
              and so potentially obscure, which other ones.

              When  specifying  a  plot,  multiple  layers may be specified, each introduced by a
              parameter layer<N>, where <N> is  a  different  (arbitrary)  suffix  labelling  the
              layer, and is appended to all the parameters specific to defining that layer.

              By  default  the  layers  are  drawn  on  the plot in the order in which the layer*
              parameters appear on the command line. However if this parameter is specified, each
              comma-separated  element  is interpreted as a layer suffix, giving the ordered list
              of layers to plot. Every element of the list must be a suffix with a  corresponding
              layer parameter, but missing or repeated elements are allowed.

       legend=true|false
              Whether  to  draw  a  legend  or not. If no value is supplied, the decision is made
              automatically: a legend is drawn only if it would have more than one entry.

       legborder=true|false
              If true, a line border is drawn around the legend.

       legopaque=true|false
              If true, the background of the legend is opaque, and the legend obscures  any  plot
              components behind it. Otherwise, it's transparent.

       legseq=<suffix>[,...]
              Determines  which  layers  are  represented in the legend (if present) and in which
              order they appear. The legend has a line for each layer label (as determined by the
              leglabelN  parameter). If multiple layers have the same label, they will contribute
              to the same entry in the legend, with style icons  plotted  over  each  other.  The
              value  of  this  parameter  is  a comma-separated sequence of layer suffixes, which
              determines the order in which the  legend  entries  appear.  Layers  with  suffixes
              missing from this list do not show up in the legend at all.

              If  no  value  is  supplied  (the  default),  the sequence is the same as the layer
              plotting sequence (see seq).

       legpos=<xfrac,yfrac>
              Determines the internal position of the legend on the plot. The value is  a  comma-
              separated  pair  of  values  giving  the X and Y positions of the legend within the
              plotting bounds, so for instance "0.5,0.5" will put the legend right in the  middle
              of  the  plot.  If  no  value  is supplied, the legend will appear outside the plot
              boundary.

       title=<value>
              Text of a title to be displayed at the top of the plot. If null,  the  default,  no
              title is shown and there's more space for the graphics.

       auxmap=<map-name>|<color>-<color>[-<color>...]
              Color map used for Aux axis shading.

              A  mixed  bag  of  colour ramps are available as listed in SUN/256: inferno, magma,
              plasma, viridis, cividis, cubehelix, sron,  rainbow,  rainbow2,  rainbow3,  pastel,
              cosmic, ember, gothic, rainforest, voltage, bubblegum, gem, chroma, neon, tropical,
              accent,  gnuplot,  gnuplot2,  specxby,  set1,  paired,  hotcold,  guppy,   iceburn,
              redshift,  pride, rdbu, piyg, brbg, cyan-magenta, red-blue, brg, heat, cold, light,
              greyscale,  colour,  standard,  bugn,  bupu,  orrd,  pubu,  purd,  painbow,  huecl,
              infinity, hue, intensity, rgb_red, rgb_green, rgb_blue, hsv_h, hsv_s, hsv_v, yuv_y,
              yuv_u,  yuv_v,  scale_hsv_s,  scale_hsv_v,  scale_yuv_y,  mask,  blacker,   whiter,
              transparency. Note: many of these, including rainbow-like ones, are frowned upon by
              the visualisation community.

              You can also construct your own custom colour map by giving a  sequence  of  colour
              names  separated  by minus sign ("-") characters. In this case the ramp is a linear
              interpolation between each pair of colours named, using the  same  syntax  as  when
              specifying  a  colour  value.  So for instance "yellow-hotpink-#0000ff" would shade
              from yellow via hot pink to blue.

       auxclip=<lo>,<hi>
              Defines a subrange of the colour ramp to be used for  Aux  shading.  The  value  is
              specified as a (low,high) comma-separated pair of two numbers between 0 and 1.

              If the full range 0,1 is used, the whole range of colours specified by the selected
              shader will be used. But if for instance a value of  0,0.5  is  given,  only  those
              colours at the left hand end of the ramp will be seen.

              If  the null (default) value is chosen, a default clip will be used. This generally
              covers most or all of the range 0-1 but for colour maps  which  fade  to  white,  a
              small  proportion  of the lower end may be excluded, to ensure that all the colours
              are visually distinguishable from a white background. This  default  is  usually  a
              good idea if the colour map is being used with something like a scatter plot, where
              markers are plotted against a white  background.  However,  for  something  like  a
              density map when the whole plotting area is tiled with colours from the map, it may
              be better to supply the whole range 0,1 explicitly.

       auxflip=true|false
              If true, the colour map on the Aux axis will be reversed.

       auxquant=<number>
              Allows the colour map used for the Aux axis to be quantised. If an integer value  N
              is chosen then the colour map will be viewed as N discrete evenly-spaced levels, so
              that only N different colours will appear in the plot. This can be used to generate
              a contour-like effect, and may make it easier to trace the boundaries of regions of
              interest by eye.

              If left blank, the colour map is nominally continuous (though in practice it may be
              quantised to a medium-sized number like 256).

       auxfunc=log|linear|histogram|histolog|sqrt|square|acos|cos
              Defines  the  way  that  values  in the Aux range are mapped to the selected colour
              ramp.

              The available options are:

                * log: Logarithmic scaling

                * linear: Linear scaling

                * histogram: Scaling follows data distribution, with linear axis

                * histolog: Scaling follows data distribution, with logarithmic axis

                * sqrt: Square root scaling

                * square: Square scaling

                * acos: Arccos Scaling

                * cos: Cos Scaling

              For all these options, the full range of data values is used, and displayed on  the
              colour  bar  if applicable. The Linear, Log, Square and Sqrt options just apply the
              named function to the full data range. The histogram options on the other hand  use
              a scaling function that corresponds to the actual distribution of the data, so that
              there are about the same number of points (or pixels, or whatever is being  scaled)
              of  each  colour.  The  histogram options are somewhat more expensive, but can be a
              good choice if you are exploring data whose distribution is unknown  or  not  well-
              behaved  over its min-max range. The Histogram and HistoLog options both assign the
              colours in the  same  way,  but  they  display  the  colour  ramp  with  linear  or
              logarithmic  annotation respectively; the HistoLog option also ignores non-positive
              values.

       auxmin=<number>
              Minimum value of the data coordinate on the Aux axis. This sets  the  value  before
              any  subranging  is  applied.  If  not  supplied,  the value is determined from the
              plotted data.

       auxmax=<number>
              Maximum value of the data coordinate on the Aux axis. This sets  the  value  before
              any  subranging  is  applied.  If  not  supplied,  the value is determined from the
              plotted data.

       auxlabel=<text>
              Sets the label used to annotate the aux axis, if it is visible.

       auxcrowd=<factor>
              Determines how closely the tick marks are spaced on the Aux axis, if  visible.  The
              default  value  is  1, meaning normal crowding. Larger values result in more ticks,
              and smaller values fewer ticks. Tick marks will not however be  spaced  so  closely
              that  the  labels  overlap  each other, so to get very closely spaced marks you may
              need to reduce the font size as well.

       auxwidth=<pixels>
              Determines the lateral size of the aux colour ramp, if visible, in pixels.

       auxvisible=true|false
              Determines whether the aux axis colour ramp is displayed alongside the plot.

              If not supplied (the default), the aux axis will be visible  when  aux  shading  is
              used in any of the plotted layers.

       forcebitmap=true|false
              Affects  whether  rendering  of the data contents of a plot (though not axis labels
              etc) is always done to an intermediate bitmap rather than,  where  possible,  being
              painted  using  graphics  primitives.  This  is  a  rather  arcane setting that may
              nevertheless have noticeable effects on  the  appearance  and  size  of  an  output
              graphics file, as well as plotting time. For some types of plot (e.g. shadingN=auto
              or shadingN=density) it will have no effect, since this kind of  rendering  happens
              in any case.

              When  writing to vector graphics formats (PDF and PostScript), setting it true will
              force the data contents to be bitmapped. This may make the  output  less  beautiful
              (round  markers  will  no  longer  be perfectly round), but it may result in a much
              smaller file if there are very many data points.

              When writing to bitmapped output formats (PNG, GIF, JPEG, ...), it fixes shapes  to
              be  the  same  as  seen  on  the screen rather than be rendered at the mercy of the
              graphics system, which sometimes introduces small distortions.

       compositor=0..1
              Defines how multiple overplotted partially transparent pixels are combined to  form
              a  resulting  colour.  The way this is used depends on the details of the specified
              plot.

              Currently, this parameter takes a "boost" value in the range 0..1. If the value  is
              zero,  saturation semantics are used: RGB colours are added in proporition to their
              associated alpha value until the total alpha is saturated (reaches 1), after  which
              additional  pixels  have  no further effect. For larger boost values, the effect is
              similar, but any non-zero alpha in the output  is  boosted  to  the  given  minimum
              value.  The  effect  of  this  is  that  even very slightly populated pixels can be
              visually distinguished from  unpopulated  ones  which  may  not  be  the  case  for
              saturation composition.

       animate=<table>
              If  not  null,  this  parameter  causes  the  command to create a sequence of plots
              instead of just one. The parameter value is a table with one row for each frame  to
              be  produced.  Columns  in  the  table are interpreted as parameters which may take
              different values for each frame; the column name is the  parameter  name,  and  the
              value  for  a  given  frame  is  its  value  from  that row. Animating like this is
              considerably more efficient than invoking the STILTS command in a loop.

              The location of the animation control table. This may take  one  of  the  following
              forms:

                * A filename.

                * A URL.

                * The  special  value  "-", meaning standard input. In this case the input format
                  must be given explicitly using the afmt parameter. Note that  not  all  formats
                  can be streamed in this way.

                * A scheme specification of the form :<scheme-name>:<scheme-args>.

                * A  system  command  line  with  either  a  "<" character at the start, or a "|"
                  character at the end ("<syscmd" or "syscmd|"). This executes the given pipeline
                  and  reads  from its standard output. This will probably only work on unix-like
                  systems.
               In any case, compressed data in one of the supported  compression  formats  (gzip,
              Unix compress or bzip2) will be decompressed transparently.

       afmt=<in-format>
              Specifies  the  format  of  the  animation  control table as specified by parameter
              animate. The known formats are listed in SUN/256. This flag can be used if you know
              what  format  your  table  is in. If it has the special value (auto) (the default),
              then an attempt will be made to detect the format of the table automatically.  This
              cannot  always  be done correctly however, in which case the program will exit with
              an error explaining which formats were attempted. This  parameter  is  ignored  for
              scheme-specified tables.

       astream=true|false
              If set true, the animation control table specified by the animate parameter will be
              read as a stream. It is  necessary  to  give  the  afmt  parameter  in  this  case.
              Depending  on  the required operations and processing mode, this may cause the read
              to fail (sometimes it is necessary to read the table more than  once).  It  is  not
              normally  necessary  to  set  this  flag;  in  most cases the data will be streamed
              automatically if that is the best thing to do. However it can sometimes  result  in
              less  resource  usage  when  processing  large  files  in  certain formats (such as
              VOTable). This parameter is ignored for scheme-specified tables.

       acmd=<cmds>
              Specifies processing to be performed on the animation control table as specified by
              parameter  animate,  before any other processing has taken place. The value of this
              parameter is one or more of the filter commands described in SUN/256. If more  than
              one  is given, they must be separated by semicolon characters (";"). This parameter
              can be repeated multiple times on the same command line  to  build  up  a  list  of
              processing steps. The sequence of commands given in this way defines the processing
              pipeline which is performed on the table.

              Commands may alteratively be supplied in an external file, by using the indirection
              character  '@'. Thus a value of "@filename" causes the file filename to be read for
              a list of filter commands to execute. The commands in the file may be separated  by
              newline characters and/or semicolons, and lines which are blank or which start with
              a '#' character are ignored.

       parallel=<int-value>
              Determines how many threads will run in  parallel  if  animation  output  is  being
              produced.  Only used if the animate parameter is supplied. The default value is the
              number of processors apparently available to the JVM.

       xlog=true|false
              If false (the default), the  scale  on  the  X  axis  is  linear,  if  true  it  is
              logarithmic.

       ylog=true|false
              If  false  (the  default),  the  scale  on  the  Y  axis  is  linear, if true it is
              logarithmic.

       zlog=true|false
              If false (the default), the  scale  on  the  Z  axis  is  linear,  if  true  it  is
              logarithmic.

       xflip=true|false
              If  true,  the  scale  on the X axis will increase in the opposite sense from usual
              (e.g. right to left rather than left to right).

       yflip=true|false
              If true, the scale on the Y axis will increase in the  opposite  sense  from  usual
              (e.g. right to left rather than left to right).

       zflip=true|false
              If  true,  the  scale  on the Z axis will increase in the opposite sense from usual
              (e.g. right to left rather than left to right).

       xlabel=<text>
              Gives a label to be used for annotating axis X A default value based on the plotted
              data will be used if no value is supplied.

       ylabel=<text>
              Gives a label to be used for annotating axis Y A default value based on the plotted
              data will be used if no value is supplied.

       zlabel=<text>
              Gives a label to be used for annotating axis Z A default value based on the plotted
              data will be used if no value is supplied.

       xcrowd=<number>
              Determines  how  closely the tick marks are spaced on the X axis. The default value
              is 1, meaning normal crowding. Larger values result  in  more  ticks,  and  smaller
              values  fewer  ticks.  Tick  marks  will  not however be spaced so closely that the
              labels overlap each other, so to get very closely spaced  marks  you  may  need  to
              reduce the font size as well.

       ycrowd=<number>
              Determines  how  closely the tick marks are spaced on the Y axis. The default value
              is 1, meaning normal crowding. Larger values result  in  more  ticks,  and  smaller
              values  fewer  ticks.  Tick  marks  will  not however be spaced so closely that the
              labels overlap each other, so to get very closely spaced  marks  you  may  need  to
              reduce the font size as well.

       zcrowd=<number>
              Determines  how  closely the tick marks are spaced on the Z axis. The default value
              is 1, meaning normal crowding. Larger values result  in  more  ticks,  and  smaller
              values  fewer  ticks.  Tick  marks  will  not however be spaced so closely that the
              labels overlap each other, so to get very closely spaced  marks  you  may  need  to
              reduce the font size as well.

       frame=true|false
              If  true,  a  cube wire frame with labelled axes is drawn to indicate the limits of
              the plotted 3D region. If false, no wire frame and no axes are drawn.

       minor=true|false
              If true, minor tick marks are painted along the axes as  well  as  the  major  tick
              marks. Minor tick marks do not have associated grid lines.

       gridaa=true|false
              If  true,  grid lines are drawn with antialiasing. Antialiased lines look smoother,
              but may take perceptibly longer to draw. Only has any effect for  bitmapped  output
              formats.

       texttype=plain|antialias|latex
              Determines  how to turn label text into characters on the plot. Plain and Antialias
              both take the text at face value,  but  Antialias  smooths  the  characters.  LaTeX
              interprets the text as LaTeX source code and typesets it accordingly.

              When  not using LaTeX, antialiased text usually looks nicer, but can be perceptibly
              slower to plot. At time of writing, on MacOS antialiased text seems to be  required
              to  stop  the  writing  coming  out upside-down for non-horizontal text (MacOS java
              bug).

       fontsize=<int-value>
              Size of the text font in points.

       fontstyle=standard|serif|mono
              Font style for text.

              The available options are:

                * standard

                * serif

                * mono

       fontweight=plain|bold|italic|bold_italic
              Font weight for text.

              The available options are:

                * plain

                * bold

                * italic

                * bold_italic

       xmin=<number>
              Minimum value of the data coordinate on the X axis. This sets the value before  any
              subranging  is  applied.  If not supplied, the value is determined from the plotted
              data.

       xmax=<number>
              Maximum value of the data coordinate on the X axis. This sets the value before  any
              subranging  is  applied.  If not supplied, the value is determined from the plotted
              data.

       xsub=<lo>,<hi>
              Defines a normalised adjustment to the data range of the X axis. The value  may  be
              specified  as  a  comma-separated  pair  of two numbers, giving the lower and upper
              bounds of the range of of interest respectively. This sub-range is applied  to  the
              data  range  that  would  otherwise  be  used,  either  automatically calculated or
              explicitly supplied; zero corresponds to the lower bound and one to the upper.

              The default value "0,1" therefore has no effect. The range could be  restricted  to
              its lower half with the value 0,0.5.

       ymin=<number>
              Minimum  value of the data coordinate on the Y axis. This sets the value before any
              subranging is applied. If not supplied, the value is determined  from  the  plotted
              data.

       ymax=<number>
              Maximum  value of the data coordinate on the Y axis. This sets the value before any
              subranging is applied. If not supplied, the value is determined  from  the  plotted
              data.

       ysub=<lo>,<hi>
              Defines  a  normalised adjustment to the data range of the Y axis. The value may be
              specified as a comma-separated pair of two numbers,  giving  the  lower  and  upper
              bounds  of  the range of of interest respectively. This sub-range is applied to the
              data range that  would  otherwise  be  used,  either  automatically  calculated  or
              explicitly supplied; zero corresponds to the lower bound and one to the upper.

              The  default  value "0,1" therefore has no effect. The range could be restricted to
              its lower half with the value 0,0.5.

       zmin=<number>
              Minimum value of the data coordinate on the Z axis. This sets the value before  any
              subranging  is  applied.  If not supplied, the value is determined from the plotted
              data.

       zmax=<number>
              Maximum value of the data coordinate on the Z axis. This sets the value before  any
              subranging  is  applied.  If not supplied, the value is determined from the plotted
              data.

       zsub=<lo>,<hi>
              Defines a normalised adjustment to the data range of the Z axis. The value  may  be
              specified  as  a  comma-separated  pair  of two numbers, giving the lower and upper
              bounds of the range of of interest respectively. This sub-range is applied  to  the
              data  range  that  would  otherwise  be  used,  either  automatically calculated or
              explicitly supplied; zero corresponds to the lower bound and one to the upper.

              The default value "0,1" therefore has no effect. The range could be  restricted  to
              its lower half with the value 0,0.5.

       phi=<degrees>
              First  of  the  Euler  angles,  in  the  ZXZ sequence, defining the rotation of the
              plotted 3d space. Units are degrees. This is the rotation around the initial Z axis
              applied before the plot is viewed.

       theta=<degrees>
              Second  of  the  Euler  angles,  in  the ZXZ sequence, defining the rotation of the
              plotted 3d space. Units are degrees. This is the rotation towards the viewer.

       psi=<degrees>
              Second of the Euler angles, in the ZXZ  sequence,  defining  the  rotation  of  the
              plotted 3d space. Units are degrees.

       zoom=<factor>
              Sets  the magnification factor at which the the plotted 3D region itself is viewed,
              without affecting its contents. The default value is 1, which means the  cube  fits
              into the plotting space however it is rotated. Much higher zoom factors will result
              in parts of the plotting region and axes being drawn outside of the plotting region
              (so invisible).

       xoff=<pixels>
              Shifts  the  whole plot within the plotting region by the given number of pixels in
              the horizontal direction.

       yoff=<pixels>
              Shifts the whole plot within the plotting region by the given number of  pixels  in
              the vertical direction.

       zoomaxes=[[x][y][z]]
              Determines which axes are affected by zoom navigation actions.

              If  no  value is supplied (the default), the mouse wheel zooms around the center of
              the cube, and right-button (or CTRL-) drag zooms in the two dimensions most closely
              aligned  with  the  plane  of  the  screen,  with the reference position set by the
              initial position of the mouse.

              If this value is set (legal values are x, y, z, xy, yz, xz and xyz) then  all  zoom
              operations are around the cube center and affect the axes named.

       zoomfactor=<number>
              Sets the amount by which the plot view zooms in or out for each unit of mouse wheel
              movement. A value of 1 means that mouse wheel zooming has no effect. A higher value
              means that the mouse wheel zooms faster and a value nearer 1 means it zooms slower.
              Values below 1 are not permitted.

       leglabelN=<text>
              Sets the presentation label for the layer with a given suffix.  This  is  the  text
              which  is  displayed  in  the  legend, if present. Multiple layers may use the same
              label, in which case they will be combined to form a single legend entry.

              If no value is supplied (the default), the suffix itself is used as the label.

       layerN=<layer-type> <layerN-specific-params>
              Selects one of the available plot types for layerN. A plot consists of  a  plotting
              surface,  set  up  using the various unsuffixed parameters of the plotting command,
              and zero or more plot layers. Each layer is introduced by a parameter with the name
              layer<N> where the suffix "<N>" is a label identifying the layer and is appended to
              all the parameter names which configure that layer. Suffixes  may  be  any  string,
              including the empty string.

              This  parameter  may  take one of the following values, described in more detail in
              SUN/256:

                * mark

                * size

                * sizexy

                * xyzvector

                * xyzerror

                * link2

                * mark2

                * poly4

                * mark4

                * polygon

                * label

                * line3d

                * contour

                * spheregrid

              Each of these layer types comes with a list of type-specific parameters  to  define
              the details of that layer, including some or all of the following groups:

                * input table parameters (e.g. inN, icmdN)

                * coordinate params referring to input table columns (e.g. xN, yN)

                * layer style parameters (e.g. shadingN, colorN)

              Every parameter notionally carries the same suffix N. However, if the suffix is not
              present, the application will try looking for a parameter with the same  name  with
              no  suffix  instead. In this way, if several layers have the same value for a given
              parameter (for instance input table),  you  can  supply  it  using  one  unsuffixed
              parameter  to  save  having  to  supply  several parameters with the same value but
              different suffixes.

SEE ALSO

       stilts(1)

       If the package stilts-doc is installed, the full documentation  SUN/256  is  available  in
       HTML format:
       file:///usr/share/doc/stilts/sun256/index.html

VERSION

       STILTS version 3.4.7-debian

       This  is  the  Debian  version  of Stilts, which lack the support of some file formats and
       network protocols. For differences see
       file:///usr/share/doc/stilts/README.Debian

AUTHOR

       Mark Taylor (Bristol University)

                                             Mar 2017                         STILTS-PLOT2CUBE(1)