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Construction of Beachball Diagram Using Java-based Software Application "Dishansh 2005"

Rita U. Thakor, Sejal V. Patel, Sejal G. Viroja, Urvi S. Chetta, and Shashikant A. Sharma
Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics

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	INTRODUCTION

 
This paper describes a new application, "Dishansh 2005," to construct a "beachball diagram" using Java-based software. The name "Dishansh" is derived from the Gujarati words "disha" (direction) and "ansh" (degree) (Patel 2005, 261, 240). The design and development process of Dishansh 2005 strictly followed the concept of software engineering. It is an interactive multipurpose tool designed to meet various requirements of the user.

A user can perform a large range of operations with this interactive software:

• The software provides multiple database connectivity. It allows the user to enter data manually, to create a new text file, and to retrieve data from standard formats such as MS Access, MS Excel, and Notepad.
  
• Dishansh 2005 provides equal-area, equal-angle, and orthographic projections for the display and analysis of structural data.
  
• Dishansh 2005 plots planes and poles of structural discontinuities according to the input data.
  
• The angle between two poles can be displayed using this software.
  
• Various utility functions are provided, including zoom in, zoom out, pan, display of necessary details, etc.
  
• The user can plot, delete, and edit the data pertaining to plane or pole repetitively.
  
• The user can customize the output using the interactive graphical user interface (GUI) of Dishansh 2005.
  

	TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY

 
Java is an object-oriented, platform-independent, Internet-ready programming language. Object-oriented software is strictly modularized, which simplifies and speeds up the development, maintenance, and updating of code. In Java, modularity is implemented through the class-A collection of data structures and operations on the data. There is a multitude . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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