About

The SurferManipulator is a stand-alone VisualBasic program for manipulation of Surfer for Windows grid files and point cloud files. Most functions require Surfer for Windows (Golden Software) to be installed on the computer.

Download

Every now and again the latest version of SurferManipulator will be available here for download.

Versions:

SurferManipulatorExe20110921.zip - Latest version
SurferManipulatorExe20080306.zip - First version with OPCR

Instructions

This file sets out the basic procedures for converting a point cloud file to a Surfer grid file using SurferManipulator, followed by various manipulations for blanking and standardising resolution for Orientation Patch Count (OPC) analyses:
Surfer_Processing_Procedures_v1.0.pdf

The following document gives basic instructions for using SurferManipulator to calculate OPC using grid text files (made by Surfer, for example):
OPC_for_SurferManipulator_Instructions_v1.1.pdf

Example grid files for demonstration of OPC:
OPC_examples.zip

Remember - no guarantees that everything works perfectly!