load bin5

Contents: Description, Arguments, Usage, Related Functions Supported Under Version: >1.69 Current Davinci Version: 2.27 64-bit Safe: Yes Description Loads data from a BIN5 file Arguments and Return Values Arguments: A string containing the path Return Value: A bin5 data product Usage Syntax: load_bin5(filename = STRING) BIN5 files are generated as an output from krc, the thermal inertia modeler. These files can have more than three dimensions. Let's assume that the number of dimensions in a given bin5 file is represented by N. If N<=3 the data is returned as a 3D-cube. If N>3 then cubes are formed out of the last three dimensions and concatenated in a hierarchy of structures as unnamed elements. For example, for a file with dimensions [W,X,Y,Z], the result will be a structure with W (unnamed) elements each of size [XxYxZ]. Similarly, for a file with dimensions [V,W,X,Y,Z], the result will be a structure with V (unnamed) sub-structures. Each sub-structure of V will be a structure with W (unnamed) elements each of size [XxYxZ]. If the data were loaded into a variable called named "a", then a data element can be accessed in "a" as "a[w][x,y,z]" for the 4D case above and as "a[v][w][x,y,z]" for the 5D case above. Notes: A bin5 file has a text label (multiple of 512 bytes) which looks like: N d1 d2 .. dN Y E [L] <<... TIME>>TEXT ... ARCH C_END where, N is the number of dimensions, d1..dN are the sizes of each dimension with the most rapidly varying index first Y is the data type of individual data elements. 1=byte, 2=short, 3=long, *4=float, 5=double, 12=ushort, 13=ulong (ref: IDL data types) E is the number of elements = d1*d2*..*dN L is the size of label (multiple of 512) TIME is the creation time of the file TEXT is the description associated with the file ARC is a 5-char value representing the machine on which the data was written to this file, supported values are "i386 " and "sun " C_END is the sentinal which marks the end of label

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