The Visualization Process

3.4 Net Version 4
We want to stick with one Image, so we have two alternatives at this juncture:

  • Find a place to insert Isosurface in line with AutoColor
  • Collect the two module outputs together into a single object (remember Groups?) and feed that to Image

Let's try both ideas and see what different images result.

First, unhook Isosurface from Import: remember to drag up from the Isosurface input tab to break a connection. Now, pull Image down to make some room and slide Isosurface in underneath AutoColor. This roughs out the arrangement we will use when we wire things up. Import remains connected to AutoColor.

 

Ready to wire

In one move, you can pull the wire off Image and drag and drop it on Isosurface. If your finger slips, it's OK to break the wire from Image, then drag a new one from AutoColor, but practice the first way because you will save a lot of time when rewiring nets when you master this technique.

 

You may discover that if you drop a wire onto a module's label that the wire snaps to the leftmost available and legal tab. This is a shortcut for rapid-fire wiring that usually gives the correct result (due to the "90% Left Rule"). However, if you know the wire needs to connect to a particular other tab, you must wire it precisely as we learned to do in the first wiring exercise.

Connect Isosurface to Image; because you've removed the input to Image (that came from AutoColor), you can now add this new wire without the Error popping up. You should end up with the sequence: Import…quot;AutoColor…quot;Isosurface…quot;Image.

Execute once and see what you get. Hmm, not bad. A blue shiny shell with holes in it. Sort of faintly resembles the water molecule we saw in the samples.