View3D Guide

Introduction to View3D .................................................................................................................. 1 Starting Hampson-Russell Software ............................................................................................... 2

Starting View3D ......................................................................................................................... 4 A Brief Summary of the View3D Process .................................................................................. 8

Loading the Seismic and Horizon Data .......................................................................................... 8 Viewing the Data ...................................................................................................................... 11 Scaling the Plot ......................................................................................................................... 12 Saving the Viewing Parameters ................................................................................................ 14 Stopping This Tutorial .............................................................................................................. 15

Adding Slices ................................................................................................................................ 15 Displaying Attribute Values.......................................................................................................... 18 Changing Color Keys For Color Plots .......................................................................................... 19

Showing Traces and Color Plots Together ............................................................................... 22 Top, Side and Other Points of View ............................................................................................. 22

Special Zoom Views ................................................................................................................. 25 Birds' Eye View .................................................................................................................... 25 Magnifying Glass Zoom ....................................................................................................... 25

Oblique Slices, Fences and Probes ........................................................................................... 26 Oblique Slices (Rotated Slices)............................................................................................. 27 Making Fences ...................................................................................................................... 29 Probes.................................................................................................................................... 30

Showing Well Log Data................................................................................................................ 34 Selecting Which Wells to View ............................................................................................ 38

Emphasing Value Ranges and Setting Transparency: Visual Control.......................................... 39 Removing Data From View3D ..................................................................................................... 43 Loading Data Slices as Horizons .................................................................................................. 43

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GUIDE TO View3D Introduction to View3D View3D is a program used to view wellbore paths, well data, seismic data and attribute data as a three dimensional volume. The general objective is to better visualize, illustrate and spatially analyze the data from HRS programs. This tutorial takes you through the most important options and features of View3D.

The data set for this tutorial consists of:

• A SEGY file, seismic.vol, which is a 3D post-stack data set. • An attribute volume, scaled_porosity.vol, which is a 3D post-stack data set. • 7 wells. Each well contains a sonic log (p wave), density log, porosity log and a check-

shot file. • A horizon file, Target_hrz. • Two data slices: seismic target and scaled porosity, positioned at the same place as the

horizon file.

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Starting Hampson-Russell Software The first step is to start the GEOVIEW program. GEOVIEW is the application manager that acts as a launch pad for other Hampson-Russell programs. If you are unfamiliar with the use of GEOVIEW, please refer to the Guide to GEOVIEW and eLOG documentation. On a Unix workstation, go to a command window and typing:

GEOVIEW <RETURN> On a PC, click the Start button and select the GEOVIEW option on the Programs / HRS applications menu. When you first launch GEOVIEW, the first window that you see is the Opened Database List, which displays your recently used databases. A database is identified by the extension wdb. For this tutorial, a database has already been created for you. To load this database for the first time, click Open to bring up the Directory Chooser.

Click the view3D folder of the HRS/data directory to bring up a list of databases in that folder. Click the View3D.wdb item in the Available List and click OK.

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The GEOVIEW Well Explorer window appears, showing the seven wells within this database. For more on this window, see the GEOVIEW section of the Installation GEOVIEW and eLOG Guide. For now, click the X at the top right to close the window.

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Starting View3D Now that the database has been opened in GEOVIEW, we are ready to start the View3D program. To do this, click the View3D button on the GEOVIEW window.

The following window now appears:

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Note that you cannot start a new project in View3D. The program is intended as an add-on to other HRS programs, and not as a stand-alone program. Therefore, you would need to open a project first created in another HRS program. You can use View3D to view any project created through these and other HRS programs. Fortunately, we have provided a project for this tutorial. Check the Open Existing Project button and click OK to bring up the Directory Chooser. Click the View3DE_Guide folder in the View3D directory to show projects in the Available List. Click the View3D_sand.prj project in the Available List and click OK.

If a message appears telling you that the pathway to the project has changed, select Switch.

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The View3D Data and Display windows now appear: The Data window is used to select what data to load and unload data from the display. It will appear like this:

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Note that the wells may be automatically selected for loading, but that nothing else is. The Project Loaded column shows the available data in the selected project. If data were missing from this list, you need to return to the original HRS program that created the project and then load that data through that program. Then save that program. Then you would return to View3D to display the complete data set. The View3D Data tab shows what data has been selected and what has already been loaded. The wells are automatically assumed selected for loading but the other data is not yet selected. The History tab lists the operations to this time that had loaded or unloaded data. The Filter section lets you filter the list of wells. Click the X at the upper left of the Filter box to hide that section. The Plot button loads (or unloads) the selected items into View3D. What has been loaded can now be viewed using the Display window features. The Display Window shows the plotted data and controls its display. Because no data has been selected and plotted yet, the Display Window is black.

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A Brief Summary of the View3D Process • In the left side of the Data window, select the data to be plotted. In the right side of that

window, set the details for loading. • Start the Plot process, activating the Display window. • Zoom the Display window to show the desired area. • Select the Display mode for the Display window and select what planes to show. • Set the horizon, well and seismic display parameters as needed. • Adjust the view as needed, creating new slices as required.

The geological play this tutorial handles is the same handled in the EMERGE tutorial and guide. It is a channel sand with porosity that can be predicted from seismic data. Loading the Seismic and Horizon Data On the Data window, double-click the horizon Target_hrz in the Horizon folder of the Project Loaded section and the volume seismic.vol in the Post-stack folder. They will now appear on the right side of the Data window, with the status "to be loaded" as shown below. Select the View3D Data tab in the top right of the window (it should be selected by default). In the Well Data section, scroll up if required and select the Density and Porosity checkboxes.

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Click once anywhere in the seismic.vol line. Move to the D/T Start column on that line (you may need to use the horizontal scroll bar to reach this column). Then click once in the D/T Start field for seismic.vol. When a cursor appears in that field, change the value from "2" to "800" and press <ENTER>. We do this so that the plot will not extend above 800 milliseconds TWT. Otherwise, the plot would have extended up to 2 milliseconds and be too tall and awkward to view. See below:

Note: Whenever you edit something in this table, you must press <ENTER> before exiting that field to keep the edit. If the wells are not automatically selected for plotting, click each well in the Well folder of the Project Loaded section. Click Plot. The selected data now appears in the Display window, while "Loaded" appears in the Status columns of the Data window.

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Viewing the Data In the following figure, note that the outline of the entire volume and wellbore lengths are shown: this is the default, or "Home" view for the data, and you can return to this view by pressing the Home key on the left vertical toolbar.

If the window is too short to show the entire toolbar on the left, a scroll icon will let you display the rest of the toolbar. Note also that the zone of interest, the part with the horizon, is dwarfed by the spread of data. The actual color choices for the well data, Seismic and Horizon Color Keys will depend on what was last used in the program. We will show how to change them later.

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Scaling the Plot Your horizon may not appear exactly as shown above, and this is because the scaling may be different. If the Time axis scale (Z) is too exaggerated, the horizon may look unreasonable. If your Z scaling is too small, the horizon may look featureless.

From the Options menu, select Scaling to bring up the Scaling window. Ensure that these values are entered:

X=1 Y=1 Z=0.5

If not, then correct the values and click OK.

If your plot disappears, then click the Home button on the left toolbar. Your plot will reappear with the correct scale. You may need to click the double arrows at the bottom of the toolbar to expand it, as shown below.

As a check, we will display a north arrow. From the Options menu, select Show North Arrow to see a yellow arrow at the top of the plot (see below).

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The entire volume is displayed with south facing upwards, contrary to what we would normally expect, and we should keep that in mind. Reselect Show North Arrow to hide that arrow. We will now zoom into the zone of interest, using the mouse, as shown below: From above the 1010 value on the left, press the middle mouse button down and drag it to about the 1125 value on the right (see below).

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When you release the mouse button, the display will be zoomed in. Note the well bores, well tops and the horizon. You may need to resize the edges of the window to see the time scales at the left and right.

You can use the middle mouse button to: Shift the display around the screen: SHIFT + Middle Mouse Button Rotate the display around a point: CTRL + Middle Mouse Button Zoom and unzoom: Middle Mouse Button, hold and drag as

previously shown Notice that there is no seismic data displayed, even though the respective color key is shown. This is because we have not selected anything at the bottom of the window yet, as shown below.

Saving the Viewing Parameters This will let you save your work and retrieve it again, which is very useful if you must interrupt this tutorial. From the Main menu, select File>Set Scene 1. Now, when you restart this tutorial, you will need to reselect everything on the Data Window and click Plot. When the Display window

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appears, all you need to do is select File>Load Scene 1, or click the Recall Scene 1 button from the left-hand toolbar.

Stopping This Tutorial First, save your scene, as described above. Close the Data window (not the Display window). Both windows close and the Visual3D session ends when you close the Data window. Adding Slices Select Slice mode from the bottom left menu of the Display window, if it is not already selected.

Click the X box to display the X-axis slice as shown below:

This X slice above shows the porosity values that we have loaded as an attribute. It also partially obscures the horizon, the wells and well top information (hence the clipped well top labels, which are easier to see on the screen than on a gray-scale diagram). To move this slice, ensure that the Slide Slices Mode button of the Slice Creation Mode toolbar is selected. This toolbar is at the upper right of the Display window.

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Then click the slice with the left mouse button to select it. The slice now has a red border with the edges of the volume and with any intersecting horizons or slices.

We have also hidden the color keys, by selecting Seismic> Show Color Map and Horizon>Show Color Map to turn the Color Map toggles off.

Now drag the X slice towards the rear (to the left) until it is at the edge of the volume, then release the left mouse button to place it as shown below:

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Repeat these steps for the Y slice, checking its box at the bottom left and then moving it to the right and back. Repeat these steps for the Z slice, checking its box at the bottom left and then moving it to about 1100 ms, to get the display below:

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Displaying Attribute Values For View3D, attributes and seismic data are treated the same except that only seismic data can be represented by wiggle traces. View3D can only display one "attribute" volume and one "seismic" volume at the same time. However, you can select what you want as seismic and attribute. We recommend that "seismic" should be reserved for actual seismic data, while "attribute" should be reserved for values calculated from the seismic data, such as inversions generated through the STRATA program or petrophysical parameters generated through the EMERGE program. Double-click scaled_porosity.vol in the Post-stack folder of the Project Loaded section of the Data window to display that attribute volume in the View3D Data section to the right. Now check the load as Attribute box for the scaled_porosity.vol data, but uncheck the load as Seismic box.

Note that this volume already has a D/T Start value of "800", but it does not matter for the display if this volume had a different value, since the display's dimensions are set by the first volume loaded (hence by the seismic.vol volume). One useful function is to place the mouse over volumes in the View3D Data table. Then a pop-up appears, giving the basic geometry for that data, as shown below (for the seismic.vol line):

There are also right-click pop-up menus in the Data window that are useful. See the online help for more on these menus.

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Click Plot. The Display window will now show the attribute (porosity) as a color scale and the Attribute color key will be displayed (you can turn this off through the Attribute menu in the same way as done for the other color keys).

Changing Color Keys For Color Plots We will now change the attribute color key to emphasize the higher porosity values. The default Color Map is Rainbow, as used above. Select Color Map from the Attribute menu to bring up the ColorMap Settings window.

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Scroll down to the Lightning Color Map and select it.

Click OK to apply the change and close the Colormap Settings window.

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Now the high porosity values are red or yellow and are easier to notice (at least on the screen, which should not be monochromatic like this book) while the lower porosity values, in which we are not interested, are in similar shades of green and easily ignored. If the Upper and Lower values in the Color Mapping section do not approximately match the Minimum and Maximum values respectively in the Data Range section, then change them to be close (e.g., using "0" for the Lower and "0.16" for the Upper values). To further demonstrate the porosity value, while in Slide mode , slide the Z slice up through the horizon to see how the porosity value changes.

Then move the Z slice back to its original position at about 1100 ms.

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Showing Traces and Color Plots Together We will now show the seismic data in a form that is not hidden by the scaled porosity colors, essentially co-rendering the two sets of data. Select Seismic>Wiggle from the Display menu. The seismic will now be displayed as wiggle traces on top of the attribute colors. To return the seismic to its color display, reselect this menu option to turn it off.

Top, Side and Other Points of View In the Well menu, uncheck the options Annotation (well and top names) and Tops (disks showing where the tops are on the well bore) so only the well bores are shown. In the Attribute menu, uncheck the Show Color Map option to hide the color key. At the bottom of the window, uncheck the Y and Z checkboxes, so only the X plane is left. These steps will declutter the view.

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Now click the Front View button on the left of the Display window to change the display to that below:

Use the Undo button or the BACKSPACE key on the keyboard to return to the previous view. Now click the Top View button .

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Again, click the Undo button to return to the original view. Press PAGEUP or click the Zoom In button three times to get the following view.

Again, click the Undo button three times to return to the original view. You can also move the view in the window by the arrow buttons or using SHIFT and the keyboard arrow keys. Note that the arrows act as if you are moving the display (as if it were a paper printout), and not as if you were moving your viewpoint (as in video games).

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Special Zoom Views Birds' Eye View

Press SHIFT-HOME on the keyboard to use this feature. A view of the entire volume will be displayed in the upper right corner. This view will match the orientation of the current view. Press SHIFT-HOME on the keyboard again to close the birds' eye view.

Magnifying Glass Zoom Press M (or m) on the keyboard to use this feature. Note: The Display Window must be active for this to work. If you are doing this tutorial by using a pdf file on a screen, you may have that screen active when you click M and then nothing happens. In that case, click on the Display Window to activate it and reclick M. A square appears in the middle of the view, magnifying the zone behind it. This magnifying glass now moves with the mouse. You can still use the middle mouse button for zooming or the left button for moving slices while this feature is up. You can also make this square wider or smaller with CTRL-PAGEUP and CTRL-PAGEDOWN. Press M again to turn it off.

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Oblique Slices, Fences and Probes Now we will show alternative ways to display parts of the volume. First, uncheck the X checkbox to remove that plane (clearing the display except for the horizon) and click Home once so the top of the volume is visible. Then click the Zoom In button twice. If the top of the volume is off the screen, use the Move Down button to move it into view.

On the upper right side of the window, we have the Slice Mode buttons.

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Oblique Slices (Rotated Slices) An oblique or rotated slice is a slice that does not parallel the X or Y axes, but is perpendicular to the Z plane. In other words, it is as if you took an X (or Y) slice and rotated it. Remember that you must be able to view the top of the volume to create these slices. Click the Create a Rotated Slice icon . Then click down on one upper edge of the volume (and do not release the button) and drag the mouse toward you and to the left. This is the direction perpendicular to the line you want. A line with an attached vector indicator now appears. The end of the vector is controlled by the mouse.

With the left button still pressed, you can use the mouse to move the vector and therefore the slice.

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Release the mouse button to create the slice.

If you click on a rotated slice or an edge, another slice will be created at that point and you can position it as long as the mouse button is held down. To stop making such slices when you click on the Display window, click the Delete Slice icon (the box with the X, ) and select the new slice to remove it. Then select Slide Slice to leave the Delete mode.

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Making Fences A fence is a series of slices connected end-to-end, resembling a fence (of course). They can be very useful to follow channels, bars or reefs, or to outline a property of land. To create a fence, click the Fence icon. Then click the front left side to start the fence (you must click on the top plane, not on the side).

Click the end of that fence panel on the front right side. Now click in a direction to the upper right. Click further right and then click to the lower right. See below.

Then click the Slide icon to leave Fence mode and therefore finish that fence. In other words, you enter Fence mode, click the corners of each fence section and then exit Fence mode to create a fence. Once you have created a fence, you can move its segments around in Slide mode by dragging the edges or corners. In the following example, the fence created above was moved to match the target channel. Note how it also emphasizes the horizon structure.

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Now click the Delete Slice icon (the box with the X, ) and select one part of the fence to remove the entire fence. Remember to then select Slide, so you do not stay in Delete mode.

Probes A probe is an orthogonal shape that shows the attribute or seismic in a different way than slices. While slices must extend the entire height of the volume, probes can be limited just to an area of interest, making them ideal for screen captures. You can also create inside angles (which resembles "steps" in the probe). Since we do not need the entire volume for probes, click the Zoom In button twice. If necessary, click the Move Up button or Move Down button until the Target_hrz horizon is in the middle of the display. From the Probe menu, select Add. The initial orthogonal shape is added automatically.

Now select Trim Volume from the Probe menu to bring up that window. Select the Xline tab. Type "20" (or slice the slider to that value) for the Start X value and press <ENTER>, and type "50" for the End X value and press <ENTER>. The Display window will show the change in the shape.

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Select the Inline tab and enter "40" for the Start, then press <ENTER> and "60" for the End, then press <ENTER>.

Then select the Depth tab and, instead of typing values, we will use the slider. Slide the Start slider to "1000" for the Start Depth, and slide the End slider to "1100" for the End Depth. You will not need to press <ENTER>. Click Close.

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The display will now show a block-like "probe".

Now we will add a corner reentrant. Click precisely on the foremost upper corner. The probe now has a cut-in section.

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Click the rear right edge of this reentrant and slide it downwards towards the horizon.

When you are finished, select Delete Current or Delete All from the Probe menu to remove the probe display.

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Showing Well Log Data First zoom in three times with the Zoom In button and use the Move Down button as needed to move the horizon downward to get a display like that below.

In the Well menu, turn the Annotation and Tops back on. Select Well>Symbol Size and ensure that the values are set as below: Top Disk = "3" Thickness = "0.5" Wellbore = "2"

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If they are not these values, then correct them and click OK. Otherwise, click OK or Close to close this window. The Top Disk is the marker that indicates a top on the wellbore. The Thickness value refers to the thickness of the top disks. The Well Bore refers to the thickness of the actual hole outline in the display. Select Curve Display from the Well menu to bring up the Well Log Curve Display Dialog. Note that the TWT curve is always included as a curve.

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Select Porosity in the Curve Selection table and click >>Center.

Now select the >>Center button in the Curve Style section. Enter the following parameters, so the center porosity plot is easier to see: Cylinder Radius = "0.5". Scale = "2". Variable Radius selected.

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Keep the other parameters the same. Click OK to close the Curve Display Dialog. Below is the result. Note how the radius changes to match the porosity values.

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Selecting Which Wells to View From the Well menu, select Visual to bring up the Well Log Visual Dialog. In the Original column, uncheck all the Visible checkboxes except 16-08 and click Apply.

Now only the 16-08 well is displayed. Click Close.

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Emphasing Value Ranges and Setting Transparency: Visual Control Check the X and Y checkboxes at the bottom of the Display window to show those slices. Position them once again at the back of the volume (they should be there automatically if you have not moved them). Select Attribute>Visual to bring up the Visual Control window for the Scaled Porosity attribute.

Uncheck the Freehand box and check the Linear box. Click on the middle red dot at the left side of the upper box. Then drag this toward the right, bringing a vertical line along, to about 3/4 over.

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What this means is that all the values whose colors fit under the now dark section will not be displayed on the plot. Therefore, only the high porosity areas will be colored. The low porosity values will not appear. Also, the underlying seismic data will be easier to see. Click OK.

In the Seismic menu, select Visual to bring up a similar window. This time, do not uncheck the Freehand checkbox. Now draw a curve from the lower left to the upper right, such as below. Click Apply.

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To avoid confusing dark peaks with deleted values (where the black background shows through), click the Color button on the Visual Control window to bring up the Color Map Settings window. Select Rainbow (instead of Gray Scale). Click OK to remove the Color Map Settings window. Click Apply on the Visual Control window to get the view below. The Rainbow color map has no black in it, so black then means "no data shown".

Close the Visual window. For the Display mode, now select Volume instead of Slice.

The entire seismic and attribute volumes are now displayed.

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Now, from the Seismic menu, select Hide to remove the seismic data from the display. Now only the attribute data (i.e., higher porosity) is shown.

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Removing Data From View3D At the bottom left of the Display window, reselect Slice instead of Volume for the Display mode. Hide the displayed well through the Well>Visual option by unchecking the Visible box in the Original column, as done before. Return to the Data window and uncheck the scaled_porosity.vol box in the Selected Volumes table and click Plot.

This will unload the attribute plot, leaving only the seismic, well and horizon data. We could have instead hidden the attribute plot without removing it by selecting Attribute> Hide. Loading Data Slices as Horizons Now we will load a Data Slice based on the Target_hrz horizon. In the Data Slice section of the Project Loaded column in the Data window, there are two data slices. The slice seismic target is just a sparser-sampled version of the Target_hrz horizon, and we will not use it. It, however, was used in EMERGE to create another slice, the scaled_porosity slice. This slice will display porosity calculated by the EMERGE program. Double-click it to place it in the Horizon Group Data with the status "To Be Loaded". Then click Plot.

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The Display window will show the same amplitude surface as Target_hrz, but as the sampling rate was lower, it is not as smoothed as the first horizon we used. The color plot will now represent scaled porosity, not two-way time. In this display, we have turned the Horizon Color Key display back on through Horizon>Show Color Map.

Note that blue and violet represent moderate porosity and yellow and red represent insufficient porosity. Note also that you can select which horizon to show by using the Horizon Group drop-down menu at the top of the window. We will stay with scaled porosity.

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Now select Horizon>Visual to open the Visual window for the scaled_porosity data slice. Click the Wire Frame check box in the Show section.

Then click Apply.

The wire frame matches the TWT data and shows the effect of the sampling rate. By the way, this is a good surface to try the Magnifying Glass view we talked about earlier (as brought up by the M key). Uncheck Wire Frame and check the Contour box.

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Then click Apply.

These contours reflect the TWT structure. When you have finished, close the window. Then close the Data window (not the Display window). Both windows close and the Visual3D session ends when you close the Data window. This concludes the Visual3D tutorial.

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