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Hi HP- > > You should use the Plan View/Color Shaded Display for formulas instead > > of the Image Display. The Image Display is a very specialized display > > that works best for reading data directly from the server as a sequence > > of images. Originally it was called the Image Sequence Display. As you > > see, > > it doesn't work for sequences of images produced by formulas. Hopefully, > > we will be able to merge the functionality of loading frames as they are > > available into the Color Shaded Display this fall. > > > Thank you for elaboration on this. > > If the majority of your differencing is going to be imagery, you could > > use the parameter defaults to set the preferred color table for the > > "simpleDifference" field. > > > Yes, I know. Only that we do differencing different channel pairs, each > with its characteristic range . Like with the RGBs I am considering to > implement formulas for them that could then linked to the appropriate > colour tables. Of course, I am looking forward to find those formulas > and the RGBs finally in a "derived field" list (if I understood you > correctly last week). I'm working on it, but it's a little more complicated than I thought. I'm not sure I'll get it done this week due to the holiday tomorrow and I'm heading to Glacier NP on Friday for a week. Don Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: BMT-190541 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open