Table
Tables are the basical metadata system in Dynamo. They are just matrices that describe the properties of sets of particles. The property coded on each column is fixed.
A table can be seen as the metadata of a data folder
As they are matrices, Matlab tools (like find<\tt>,plot<\tt>,hist<\tt>) are easily customizable to explore and visualize the contents of a table. Additionally, Dynamo includes many specific utilities.
dapropos table will give you a list of basic commands that you can use for table manipulation.
Contents
Format convention in a table
The convention can be consulted each time by the command dthelp
Reading and writing tables
Tables are customarily stored as text files with extension '.tbl'.
Tables can be read and write into the matlab worspace with the standard commands dwrite and dread.
For specially long tables, you can use the extension '.tbl', which will write the files in binary formays
Visualization of tables
Basic info dinfo
dinfo \<table\> <\tt> just plots on screen a summary of the contents of the table on each column.
Command line dtplot
dtplot allows the creation of graphs like: positions of particles in a volume, orientations, distributions of orientations. One example of use of the command is to check if all the particles in a reference (column = 34) have a similar missing wedge orientation (the tilt angle is coded in column 8).
Basic plots dtshow
dtshow \<table\> <\tt> opens a lightweight GUI that allows quick plotting of the contents of the table, and also a GUI access to all the plotting options of dtplot</tt
Complex plots dtview
dtview is a more complicated browser for table contents.
