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How can IDL be used to generate dynamic GIFs for display on the World Wide Web?

April 26, 2017display Dynamic GIFs IDL Used world wide web

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How can IDL be used to generate dynamic GIFs for display on the World Wide Web?

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By Jason Mathews, NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center: Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Perl scripts are invoked via submiting a HTML form , which execute IDL in batch mode, runs a IDL routine to make a plot of the selected parameters, and writes the results to a GIF. The perl program output is displayed on the WWW browser as a HTML document with an inline GIF image.