Dips Overview

Dips is a program designed for the interactive analysis of orientation-based geological data. The program is a toolkit capable of many different applications and is designed both for the novice or occasional user, and for the accomplished user of stereographic projection who wishes to utilize more advanced tools in the analysis of geological data.

Dips allows the user to analyze and visualize structural data following the same techniques used in manual stereonets. In addition, many computational features are available, such as statistical contouring of orientation clustering, mean orientation calculation, and qualitative and quantitative feature attribute analysis.

The Dips API exposes primary functionalities of the program which can be automated by Python scripting for project and view creation, inputting data, modifying entities, and outputting results data.