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With IDL Object Graphics, plotting two graphics with different data extents in the same graphic window requires normalizing the range of the second graphic to fit the extension of the first one. If not, the two graphics will not fit within the same view.

IDL includes a routine called FILLPLOT which allows to create horizontal filled plots. However it does not support vertical filled plots:

https://www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/docs/FILLPLOT.html

The easiest way to build vertical filled plots is then to use the POLYGON routine instead:

https://www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/docs/POLYGON.html

QHULL is an IDL routine to apply Quick Hull algorithm for various applications.

Bibliography: “The Quickhull Algorithm for Convex Hulls,” ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 22, No 4, December 1996, Pages 469-483, Barber, Dobkin and Huhdanpaa

One application consists in building the largest convex polygon around a set of random points. The example below is showing how to use QHULL in such context.

If you have difficulties to configure IDL Pyhton bridge with a virtual venv Python environment, it may be due to the fact that such virtual environments are missing almost all of the required Libs, site-packages, and DLLs. They all come from the parent environment. The IDL Python bridge does not know that it is a virtual environment and assumes that everything is located within the Python venv directory.

Creating multiple child sessions of IDL_IDLbridge on Linux systems may result in error.