Screenshots from GPlates 0.9.2 (May 2008):
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The main GPlates window, with the EarthByte global coastline file and a NASA world-topo-bathy image loaded. |
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The main GPlates window, with plate-boundary features and a global elevation raster image loaded. |
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The operations in the View menu, which are used to: control the camera
position, orientation and zoom; toggle the display of rasters on the globe; and
export a snapshot of the geometries on the 3-D globe as a 2-D vector-graphic
image. Note that the mouse can also be used to re-position the camera (using the “Drag globe to re-orient” tool) and change the zoom (using the scroll wheel). |
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Querying the properties (also known as "attributes" in some GIS software) of a
feature. The feature-types used in GPlates are defined by the GPlates Geological Information model. |
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Editing the properties of a feature. GPlates uses a custom-designed “widget” (user-interface element) for each type of property, enabling property values to be edited in a convenient, easy-to-use fashion. |
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The Animate dialog is used to animate a reconstruction between user-specified start and end times. |
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The Total Reconstruction Poles dialog provides a variety of informative
representations of the total reconstruction poles (finite rotations) for the
current reconstruction time. The Relative Rotations tab contains a table of
relative rotations for each moving plate ID. It is also possible to export the table of total reconstruction poles in CSV (comma-separated value) format, for later viewing in a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel. |
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The Reconstruction Tree tab of the Total Reconstruction Poles dialog contains a tree-like representation of the hierarchy of relative rotations at the current reconstruction time. |
Animated screenshots from GPlates 0.9.2 (May 2008):
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An animated screen-capture of the main GPlates window, with the EarthByte global coastline file and Bernhard Steinberger's time-dependent dynamic topography raster images
loaded, animating a reconstruction from 60 Ma to 0 Ma. Observe that even while GPlates is animating the reconstruction and raster images, the program remains fully interactive: During this animation, the user is able to zoom in and out, move the camera by “dragging” the globe, and query a feature. (14 MB animated GIF image) |