Show Your Layers Clearly: Bring Your 3D Models Into Full View with Multiple Light Sources Creating clear, accurate, and compelling 3D models is vital when you’re communicating complex subsurface information. But if your model includes multiple layers at different depths—like surfaces, drillholes, or isosurfaces—then you [...]
101 Guide to a Durov Diagram: Its Purpose, Benefits, Use Cases, and the Best Way to Create & Recreate One Quickly Creating a Durov diagram from scratch is no small feat. Even with the right software, there’s still the matter of finding where the plot [...]
Drillhole Contacts and Surfaces are Providing Details About the Underground It’s one thing to analyze subsurface data yourself. It’s another thing to translate what’s happening underground into a clear, compelling, and accurate visualization that others can easily understand and act on. One of the best [...]
101 Guide to a Wind Rose Diagram: Its Purpose, Benefits, Use Cases, and the Best Way to Create & Recreate One Quickly When you open your data visualization software to create a wind rose diagram—also known as a polar wind chart in Grapher—you're usually met [...]
The Latest Features You Can Enjoy in Surfer Beta (September 2025 Edition) At Golden Software, we’re constantly looking for ways to make your work more efficient, intuitive, and impactful. That’s why we’re always refining our tools, and one of the most powerful ways we do [...]
The Latest Version of Surfer Is Enhancing Efficiency and Improving Stakeholder Understanding The newest version of Surfer is officially here—and it’s built with your biggest priorities in mind: working more efficiently and helping stakeholders understand your findings. From time-saving tools to new ways to present [...]
101 Guide to a Ternary Class Scatter Plot: Its Purpose, Benefits, Use Cases, and the Best Way to Create & Recreate One Quickly Creating a ternary class scatter plot can be incredibly rewarding—once you’ve figured it out. But getting to that point isn’t always straightforward. [...]
A Glimpse Into the University of South Florida’s Field Camp: How the Geophysics Course Is Guiding & Equipping Students When you’re pursuing a geology degree at the University of South Florida (USF), there’s one experience that truly transforms your education from theory to practicality: field [...]
101 Guide to Stiff Plots: Its Purpose, Benefits, Use Cases, and the Best Way to Create & Recreate One With Ease If you’ve ever created a stiff plot, you know how satisfying it is to finally get everything in place—the data aligned, the axes formatted, [...]
Transform Your Water Quality Data Into Effective Visualizations Stakeholders Understand and Act On August is National Water Quality Month, a time focused on remembering the importance of having access to clean water. If you work with water data, there’s no better time to highlight the [...]