Contents

• Introduction
  • A brief overview of the Catalogue
• Selection and input of data
  • The format of the database
  • Reading in the data
  • Preprocessing the data
    • Splitting up the master-file
    • Converting to Explorer-readable format
• Preparing and doing the video
  • Setting up Explorer
    • Building the relevant maps
    • Live animations
  • Animations with IDL
  • The computer to video interface
  • On screen text, sound and narration
• The video - section by section
  • Our system of reference
  • The full set of data - An overview
  • The innermost section,
  • A view from Origo
  • The northern CfA slice,
  • -slices of the innermost data,
• Further developments
• Concluding remarks
• Acknowledgements
• References
• The IDL procedure ascii_to_bin
• The IDL procedure calcdata
• The IDL procedure new_pol_to_cart
• The IDL procedure lines
• The IDL procedure equa
• The IDL procedure alphatour
• The IDL procedure slicelines
• The IDL procedures loadanim and runanim
• The IDL procedure plotdata
• The IDL procedure kgbox
• The IDL procedure t3dset
• The IDL procedure galcount
• The IDL procedure sources
• The C-shell script sourceawk
• The C-shell script sourcesort
• About this document ...