Surfing

Sometimes the user needs to walk along the graph of a 2D data object or 3D data object and wants to see discrete data point values. The surfing function allows to walk through a data object data point by data point in any direction. The actual data point values will be displayed in the lower right corner of the window.

Surfing is performed as follows:

Surfing on data objects with mouse and keyboard

To walk through data points of an object, please follow the instructions below:

1. Activate the data object of interest.

2. Move the Mouse Pointer close to the data point of interest.

3. Press the Left Arrow or Right Arrow or Up Arrow or Down Arrow key to navigate to the nearest data point.

4. Keep pressing one of the Arrow keys to walk further into the direction along the graph.