Cactus Code Thorn IOASCII
Authors    : Gabrielle Allen, Tom Goodale, Thomas Radke
CVS info   : $Header$
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1. Purpose of the thorn

This thorn does 1D and 2D output of 3D variables in ASCII format.

1D output slices through the edge (in octant mode) or center
(in all origin-centered modes) of the grid in the x,y, and z directions.
If the grid is cubed it will also slice in the diagonal direction.
Ouput files can be processed with either gnuplot or xgraph.

2D output is done for the xy, xz, and yz plane.
Ouput files can be processed with the splot command in gnuplot.

The IO methods "IOASCII_1D" and "IOASCII_2D" are registered 
which can be called by other thorns via CCTK_OutputVarAsByMethod()
to output a variable without specifying it in the parameter file.


2. Additional information