CMBview: A Mac OS X program for viewing HEALPix-format sky map data on a sphere
Abstract
CMBview is a viewer for FITS files containing HEALPix sky maps. Sky maps are projected onto a 3d sphere which can be rotated and zoomed interactively with the mouse. Features include:
rendering of the field of Stokes vectors ray-tracing mode in which each screen pixel is projected onto the sphere for high quality rendering control over sphere lighting export an arbitrarily large rendered texture variety of preset colormaps- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- December 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011ascl.soft12011P
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- Software