Hide or exclude groups Use this panel to manipulate the brushed groups, where each group is defined as a set of cases having the same glyph and color. As soon as you open this panel, a new variable, labelled "group," is added to the variable selection panel. Reset brushed groups Click here to redefine the groups after brushing some points on the screen. The groups panel contains one row for each group, and there are four columns. The group name is assigned to be the group number, but you can edit that field. The names you assign will be retained if you press "Reset brushed groups," but it isn't presently saved between subsequent xgobi runs. (We'll have to add a new file format to hang on to them.) The symbol is the glyph and color of the group -- and it's also a button. Clicking on it will reassign the glyph and color for all members of a group to the glyph and color currently selected in the brushing panel. Hidden: Group members are not drawn. Excluded: Group members are excluded from all calculations (scaling, sphering, principal coordinates, projection pursuit) -- and they are not drawn. We know this is a bit ambiguous -- the interface might be more natural if those categories were mutually exclusive, but that's not how the code works. There can be no cases that are excluded and drawn, because all the routines that loop over rows pay no attention to the excluded cases, which speeds up a lot of computations. We hope this design will make sense to you if you play with it a bit.