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# Display Options

The Display Options dialog allows you to customize Colours and Styles on a per view basis.

Display Options is available in the sidebar or the View menu for all stereonet or rosette plots.

Colours

Stereonet – the background colour INSIDE the stereonet perimeter. Applies to Pole, Scatter and Rosette Plots, and Contour Plots only if the Contour mode is Lines.

Background – the background colour OUTSIDE the stereonet perimeter.

Grid Outer – the colour of the stereonet perimeter circle and exterior tick marks.

Grid Inner – the colour of the stereonet center cross, cross-hair grid, and rosette circles.

Overlay – the colour of the stereonet grid overlay applied with the Stereonet Overlay option.

Legend Text – the colour of the text in the Legend, and also the NSEW direction letters.

Set Windows – the colour of the Set Windows created with the Add Set Window option.

Confidence – the colour of Confidence Cones displayed with the Edit Sets dialog.

Variability – the colour of Variability Cones displayed with the Edit Sets dialog.

Lines – the colour of Lines added with the Add Trend Line option.

Cones – the colour of Cones added with the Add Cone option.

Pitch Grid – the colour of Pitch Grids added with the Add Pitch Grid option.

Arrows – the colour of arrows added with the Add Arrow option.

Added Text – the colour of text added with the Add Text option.

Rosette Scale – the colour of the scale numbers on a Rosette Plot.

Rosette Wedge – the colour of the Rosette wedges.

Global Mean – the colour of the Global Mean Vector display.

NOTE: the colour of ADDED planes (Add Plane option) and MEAN planes (Add Set Window option) can be customized in the Edit Planes and Edit Sets dialogs, and NOT the Display Options dialog.

Styles

Grid Style – the stereonet perimeter circle, exterior tick marks, center cross, cross-hairs, and NSEW letters, can all be displayed or hidden with the check boxes provided.

Line Style – Lines added with the Add Trend Line option can be displayed in 3 different ways – Full (full line, extending past the perimeter), Middle (full line terminating at the perimeter), or Ends (two collinear line segments plotted outside the perimeter).