[R] Smooth contour of a map

Pierre Bruyer pbruyer at agaetis.fr
Wed May 18 17:59:06 CEST 2011


It's perfect, thank you!
I would like post the final code if someone need help in this subject, but I try to correct
a last problem, how can I  constrain the contourLines() function to take the corner points of the map in his result ... it does not consider this point like a contour point.

Le 18 mai 2011 à 15:18, David Winsemius a écrit :

> You may be looking for the par settings of xaxs="i", yaxs="i", which if you add them to the plot call will prevent the "regular" behavior of adding 4% padding to the axis widths.
> 
> ?par
> 
> -- David.
> 
> On May 18, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Pierre Bruyer wrote:
> 
>> I've pratically resolved my problem (the code is under that), but a last thing is not perfect:
>> when I use the function plot to call after the function polygon, there is a marge between my raster and the window. I think it's the axis of the function "plot()", but I have not found how delete it. Someone have a solution please?
>> 
>> Pierre Bruyer
>> 
>> ##smooth contour
>> 	
>> 	contours <- contourLines(V2b,levels=paliers)
>> 
>> 	
>> 	par(mar=c(0,0,0,0))
>> 	plot(1,col="white",main="polygon()", asp = 1, axes = FALSE, ann = FALSE,xlim=c(0,1), ylim = c(0,1),type = "n", method = c("image"))
>> 	for (i in seq_along(contours)) {
>> 		 x <- contours[[i]]$x
>> 		 y <- contours[[i]]$y
>> 		 c <- contours[[i]]$level
>> 		 j <- 1
>> 		 tmp <- 0
>> 		 while(j < length(level[,1]) && tmp == 0){
>> 		 	if(level[j,1] == c){
>> 		 		tmp <- j
>> 		 	}
>> 		 	j <- j+1
>> 		}	
>> 
>> 		polygon( spline( seq_along(x), x)$y, spline( seq_along(y), y)$y ,col = colgraph[tmp+1], border = NA)
>> 	}
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Le 17 mai 2011 à 16:44, Pierre Bruyer a écrit :
>> 
>>> The result is good, thanks a lot, but how can I with this method fill my raster to color?
>>> 
>>> Le 17 mai 2011 à 15:43, Duncan Murdoch a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> I don't think filled.contour gives you access to the contour lines.  If you use contourLines() to compute them, then you can draw them using code like this:
>>>> 
>>>> contours <- contourLines(V2b,levels=paliers)
>>>> for (i in seq_along(contours)) {
>>>> x <- contours[[i]]$x
>>>> y <- contours[[i]]$y
>>>> lines( splines( seq_along(x), x)$y, splines( seq_along(y), y)$y )
>>>> }
>>>> 
>>>> but as I said, you won't get great results.  A better way is to use a finer grid, e.g. by fitting a smooth surface to your set of points and using predictions from the model to interpolate.
>>>> 
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 17/05/2011 9:35 AM, Pierre Bruyer wrote:
>>>>> I work with large datasets (10000 points) so I can't post them , but my function is :
>>>>> 
>>>>> create_map<- function(grd, level ,map_output, format = c("jpeg"), width_map = 150, height_map = 150,...)
>>>>> {	
>>>>> 		
>>>>> 	##sp<- spline(x = grd[,1], y = grd[,2])
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	grd2<- matrix(grd[,3], nrow = sqrt(length(grd[,3])), ncol = sqrt(length(grd[,3])), byrow = FALSE)
>>>>> 	
>>>>> 	V2b<- grd2
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	
>>>>> 	##creation of breaks for colors
>>>>> 	i<-1	
>>>>> 	paliers<- c(-1.0E300)
>>>>> 	while(i<=length(level[,1]))
>>>>> 	{
>>>>> 		paliers<- c(paliers,level[i,1])
>>>>> 		i<- i+1
>>>>> 	}
>>>>> 	paliers<- c(paliers, 1.0E300)
>>>>> 		
>>>>> 	##scale color creation
>>>>> 	i<- 1
>>>>> 	colgraph<- c(rgb(255,255,255, maxColorValue = 255))
>>>>> 	while(i<=length(level[,2]))
>>>>> 	{
>>>>> 		colgraph<- c(colgraph, rgb(level[i,2],level[i,3],level[i,4], maxColorValue = 255))
>>>>> 		i<- i +1
>>>>> 	}
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	##user can choose the output format (default is jpeg)
>>>>> 	switch(format,
>>>>> 		png = png(map_output, width = width_map, height = height_map) ,
>>>>> 		jpeg = jpeg(map_output, width = width_map, height = height_map, quality = 100),
>>>>> 		bmp = bmp(map_output, width = width_map, height = height_map),
>>>>> 		tiff = tiff(map_output, width = width_map, height = height_map),
>>>>> 		jpeg(map_output, width = width_map, height = height_map))
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	## drawing map
>>>>> 	
>>>>> 	##delete marge
>>>>> 	par(mar=c(0,0,0,0))
>>>>> 	filled.contour(V2b, col = colgraph, levels = paliers, asp = 1, axes = FALSE, ann = FALSE)
>>>>> 	dev.off() 		
>>>>> 
>>>>> }
>>>>> 
>>>>> where grd is a xyz data frame,
>>>>> map_output is the path+name of the output image file,
>>>>> and level is a matrix like this :
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> level<- matrix(0,10,4)
>>>>> level[1,1]<- 1.0000E+00
>>>>> level[2,1]<- 3.0000E+00
>>>>> level[3,1]<- 5.0000E+00
>>>>> level[4,1]<- 1.0000E+01
>>>>> level[5,1]<- 1.5000E+01
>>>>> level[6,1]<- 2.0000E+01
>>>>> level[7,1]<- 3.0000E+01
>>>>> level[8,1]<- 4.0000E+01
>>>>> level[9,1]<- 5.0000E+01
>>>>> level[10,1]<- 7.5000E+01
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> level[1,2]<- 102
>>>>> level[2,2]<- 102
>>>>> level[3,2]<- 102
>>>>> level[4,2]<- 93
>>>>> level[5,2]<- 204
>>>>> level[6,2]<- 248
>>>>> level[7,2]<- 241
>>>>> level[8,2]<- 239
>>>>> level[9,2]<- 224
>>>>> level[10,2]<- 153
>>>>> 
>>>>> level[1,3]<- 153
>>>>> level[2,3]<- 204
>>>>> level[3,3]<- 204
>>>>> level[4,3]<- 241
>>>>> level[5,3]<- 255
>>>>> level[6,3]<- 243
>>>>> level[7,3]<- 189
>>>>> level[8,3]<- 126
>>>>> level[9,3]<- 14
>>>>> level[10,3]<- 0
>>>>> 
>>>>> level[1,4]<- 153
>>>>> level[2,4]<- 204
>>>>> level[3,4]<- 153
>>>>> level[4,4]<- 107
>>>>> level[5,4]<- 102
>>>>> level[6,4]<- 33
>>>>> level[7,4]<- 59
>>>>> level[8,4]<- 63
>>>>> level[9,4]<- 14
>>>>> level[10,4]<- 51
>>>>> 
>>>>> Le 17 mai 2011 à 15:17, Duncan Murdoch a écrit :
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 17/05/2011 8:24 AM, Pierre Bruyer wrote:
>>>>>>> Thank you for your answer, but the function spline() (and a lot of other function in R)  can't take in its parameters the original contour which are define by a vector, i.e. :
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you post some reproducible code to generate the contours, someone will show you how to use splines to interpolate them.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 	##creation of breaks for colors
>>>>>>> 	i<-1	
>>>>>>> 	paliers<- c(-1.0E300)
>>>>>>> 	while(i<=length(level[,1]))
>>>>>>> 	{
>>>>>>> 		paliers<- c(paliers,level[i,1])
>>>>>>> 		i<- i+1
>>>>>>> 	}
>>>>>>> 	paliers<- c(paliers, 1.0E300)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Le 17 mai 2011 à 13:05, Duncan Murdoch a écrit :
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 11-05-17 5:58 AM, Pierre Bruyer wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I'm a French developer (so I am sorry if my english is not perfect). I have a problem to smooth the contours of a map. I have a dataset with 3 columns, x, y and z, where x and y are the coordinates of my points and z is evaluate to a qualitative elevation and his representation is a set of colors, which is define by levels.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> The problem is the curve of my contour is so linear, and I would like a more continuous contour. I use the function fitted.contour to draw my map.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> If you use a finer grid of x,y values you'll get shorter segments and they will look smoother.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> You might be able to use a smooth interpolator (e.g. spline()) rather than linear interpolation, but those occasionally do strange things e.g.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> x<- c(1:4, 5.9, 6:10)
>>>>>>>> y<- c(1:4,   7, 6:10)
>>>>>>>> plot(spline(x,y, n=200), type="l")
>>>>>>>> points(x,y)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> where one point is out of line with the others, but the curve overcompensates in order to stay smooth.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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> David Winsemius, MD
> Heritage Laboratories
> West Hartford, CT
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