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## Acknowledgments
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The AAS WorldWide Telescope system is a [.NET Foundation] project managed by
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the non-profit [American Astronomical Society] (AAS). Work on WWT has been
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supported by the AAS, the US [National Science Foundation] (grants [1550701]
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and [1642446]), the [Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation], and [Microsoft].
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Work on the WorldWide Telescope system has been supported by the [American
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Astronomical Society] (AAS), the [.NET Foundation], and other partners. See [the
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WWT user website][acks] for details.
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[.NET Foundation]: https://dotnetfoundation.org/
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[American Astronomical Society]: https://aas.org/
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[National Science Foundation]: https://www.nsf.gov/
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[1550701]: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1550701
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[1642446]: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1642446
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[Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation]: https://www.moore.org/
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[Microsoft]: https://www.microsoft.com/
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[.NET Foundation]: https://dotnetfoundation.org/
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[acks]: https://worldwidetelescope.org/about/acknowledgments/
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This guide documents the different data formats used by
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[AAS WorldWide Telescope][wwt] software, as well as some of the tools used to
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[WorldWide Telescope][wwt] software, as well as some of the tools used to
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generate or manipulate them.
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[wwt]: https://worldwidetelescope.org/home
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# Taxonomy
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The following table lists the taxonomy codes that can be used to classify
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images. The AAS WorldWide Telescope has adopted the image hierarchy taxonomy
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images. WorldWide Telescope has adopted the image hierarchy taxonomy
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proposed by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance and the
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[Virtual Astronomy Multimedia Project]'s (VAMP)
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[Astronomy Visualization Metadata] (AVM) standard. As an example, a tour of
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A “collection” is a friendly name given to a WTML file. WTML is the
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user-editable file format designed specifically for AAS WorldWide Telescope.
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user-editable file format designed specifically for WorldWide Telescope.
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The **Explore** menu entry in the WWT interface is essentially a WTML browser.
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Fairly simple examples of WTML files are those that contain only one type of
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# Structure of a Collection File
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A collection file is coded in XML, and is a hierarchical collection of
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**Folder** entries. The following example can be loaded into AAS WorldWide
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**Folder** entries. The following example can be loaded into WorldWide
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Telescope and will appear as the image below, even though all the folders are
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empty. The example is based on a community payload file, though a very similar
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structure would apply to a hierarchical selection of tours or studies.
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Note that the **Name** entries appear in the upper panel of AAS WorldWide
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Note that the **Name** entries appear in the upper panel of WorldWide
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Telescope, and that one unique thumbnail image for each **Folder** is helpful
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(though not required, a default thumbnail will be used if none is provided),
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and more thumbnail images will be helpful for each entry within each
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## Thumbnail Images
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Thumbnail images are used frequently throughout AAS WorldWide Telescope to provide
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Thumbnail images are used frequently throughout WorldWide Telescope to provide
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an image to go along with a link, either in the top pane under Collections or
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Tours, or in the lower pane as part of a context search. Typically if you
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prepare your own data you may well create a thumbnail image for it — usually
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Preparing a full sky survey involves a huge amount of data collection and
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preparation, and a comparatively simple WTML collection file to render it. The
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TOAST projection system for survey data is described in the
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[AAS WorldWide Telescope Projection Reference](https://worldwidetelescope.gitbook.io/projection-reference/),
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and the Sphere Toaster tool used to prepare data is described in the
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[AAS WorldWide Telescope Data Tools Guide](https://worldwidetelescope.gitbook.io/data-tools-guide/).
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[TOAST Projection section](@/spherical-projections/toast-projection/index.md).
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Similar to studies, the source image data is converted into an image pyramid
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for ease of rendering.
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### Default Tours
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The default tours used by the Windows version of AAS WorldWide Telescope are held
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The default tours used by the Windows version of WorldWide Telescope are held
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in the `tours.wtml` file, in the following locations:
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- Windows Vista: `C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WorldWideTelescope\data\`
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# Communities
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Communities are the primary way in which AAS WorldWide Telescope users can share
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{% warning() %}
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This content is extremely outdated. The Communities functionality is not
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currently recommended for use.
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{% end %}
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Communities are the primary way in which WorldWide Telescope users can share
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data and tours with each other. Communities can be made by any user, but
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typically are individuals or organizations, such as planetariums, science
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centers, astronomy clubs, magazines, bloggers, schools, classes, and for class
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contact with Microsoft. However, you may prefer to have your community listed
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it on the WorldWide Telescope Community Directory (a subset of which is shown
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on the
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[WWT Support page](http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Support/IssuesAndBugs).
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To do this, send an email to `wwt@aas.org`, requesting that your community be
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[WWT Support page](http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Support/IssuesAndBugs)).
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To do this, send an email to `hello@worldwidetelescope.org`, requesting that your community be
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listed. To be considered for inclusion in the community directory, community
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sites must maintain standards in terms of quality, scalability, and content
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appropriateness. These standards include:
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* Community content must be well moderated, free of hate speech, and reflect
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currently accepted astronomical information/theory. The installation must
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have sufficient capacity for handling projected traffic.
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* The community must make use of integrated AAS WorldWide Telescope features
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* The community must make use of integrated WorldWide Telescope features
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such as tours, sky-aligned images, and so on. Not just simple HTML links
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to existing web content.
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### Step 1: Set the Mime Types
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To set up a community, you should first add the AAS WorldWide Telescope file
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To set up a community, you should first add the WorldWide Telescope file
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extensions to the MIME types on your server.
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# Goto
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To capture a link from the AAS WorldWide Telescope, right click to bring up the
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To capture a link from WorldWide Telescope, right click to bring up the
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**Finder Scope**, select **Research** then **Copy Shortcut** from the menu.
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This will encode the current view into a URL.
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automated way of creating the URL from within WorldWide Telescope.
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Of course the image, and optionally a thumbnail of it, must be web accessible
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for this to work. The image should also have a maximum size of 2048×2048
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pixels. If larger sized images are required, then WTML data files should be
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set up to tile the image correctly (refer to the
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[AAS WorldWide Telescope Data Tools Guide](https://worldwidetelescope.gitbook.io/data-tools-guide/)).
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for this to work. The image should also have a maximum size of 2048×2048 pixels.
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If larger sized images are required, then WTML data files should be set up to
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tile the image correctly (refer to [the toasty
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manual](https://toasty.readthedocs.io/)).
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The base of the URL is as follows:
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This section describes a process that can be used to create tiled image
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pyramids to be used with AAS WorldWide Telescope. A sample implementation of
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pyramids to be used with WorldWide Telescope. A sample implementation of
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the interfaces and methods is included, and if your source data matches this
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closely then the sample code provided should work in full or in part for the
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task. If there are significant differences between the source data used in the
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# Prerequisites
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To run the samples ensure your system meets the hardware requirements and the
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necessary software is installed, described in the
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[Getting Started](https://www.gitbook.com/book/worldwidetelescope/worldwide-telescope-user-manual)
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section.
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necessary software is installed.
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## To Install IIS 7.5 on Windows 7
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The Community Service treats the following folder names as reserved: All
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Tours, Latest, Plates, DemPlates and Pyramid.
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For more information on Community files, refer to the
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[WorldWide Telescope Data Files Reference.](https://www.gitbook.com/book/worldwidetelescope/worldwide-telescope-data-files-reference)
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## Including DEM data
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When using these samples with the sample data specified, or with any other
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[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/](http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/)
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- `Projection` — Projection can be either Toast or Mercator. For more
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information please refer to:
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[WWT Projection Reference](https://www.gitbook.com/book/worldwidetelescope/worldwide-telescope-projection-reference)
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[WWT Projection Reference](@/spherical-projections/_index.md)
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- `InputBoundary` — An optional parameter, defining the input boundary in
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decimal degrees.
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- `OutputDir` — Optional parameter, specifying the folder for output image
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bounding coordinates.
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- `Projection` — Projection can be either Toast or Mercator. For more
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information please refer to:
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[WorldWide Telescope Projection Reference](https://www.gitbook.com/book/worldwidetelescope/worldwide-telescope-projection-reference)
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[WorldWide Telescope Projection Reference](@/spherical-projections/_index.md)
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- `InputBoundary` — Optional parameter, defining the input boundary in decimal
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degrees.
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- `OutputDir` — Optional parameter, specifying the folder for output image
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longitude, Y is latitude and Z is the value. Data should be in a regular mesh.
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- `Projection` — Projection can be either Toast or Mercator. For more
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information please refer to:
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[WorldWide Telescope Projection Reference](https://www.gitbook.com/book/worldwidetelescope/worldwide-telescope-projection-reference)
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[WorldWide Telescope Projection Reference](@/spherical-projections/_index.md)
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- `OutputDir` — Optional parameter, specifying the folder for output image
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pyramids and newly created wtml files. If no input is supplied, image tiles
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are stored in the `%ProgramData%\Microsoft Research\WWT SDK\Output` folder.
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latitude and Z is the value.
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- `Projection` — Projection can be either Toast or Mercator. For more
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information please refer to:
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[WorldWide Telescope Projection Reference](https://www.gitbook.com/book/worldwidetelescope/worldwide-telescope-projection-reference)
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[WorldWide Telescope Projection Reference](@/spherical-projections/_index.md)
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- `ColorMap` — Path of a color map file used. A color map is used to assign
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colors to various points based on their z value and the colors available in
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the color map (from top to bottom in the case of a vertically oriented color
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