Calculate Contact Points

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How to open the calculate contact points dialog box

Open the Calculate Contact Points dialog box in one of two ways:

WinPICS will calculate contact points for horizon intersections with faults. This places a wedge marker on your seismic section or map based on an interpolation of the horizon picks nearest the fault. This does not necessarily place picks on the traces adjacent to the fault. You will need to manually pick the data if you want to have picks on these traces. Contact point calculation is not the only way to place markers, as you pick data up to a fault, contact points are placed automatically.

Calculating Contact Points

Follow these steps:

  1. Select a horizon under Horizon/Fault to calculate all contact points for the selected horizon with all faults. Select a fault under Horizon/Fault to calculate contact points for the selected fault with all horizons. To calculate all contact points on all horizons, select All under Horizon/Fault.
  2. Select the check box to Replace existing contact points, or leave this box empty to keep existing contact points while adding new points.
  3. Contact points are calculated for the active seismic line (2D line, 3D in-line or cross-line). To display contact points on your map, select one of the following options:
  4. If you want WinPICS to use extrapolation, type a value in the Max Number of Traces field. This is the number of traces over which WinPICS will extrapolate contact points. If a horizon pick is more than this number of traces away from the fault, WinPICS will not attempt to extrapolate.

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