Compare:

persp(matrix(c(1,1,NA,NA,
                  1,1,NA,NA,
                  1,NA,NA,NA,
                   1,NA,NA,1), 4,4), zlim=c(0,2))

persp(matrix(c(1,1,0,0,
                 1,1,0,0,
                 1,0,0,0,
                  1,0,0,1), 4,4), zlim=c(0,2))

-- 
David.


On Feb 15, 2013, at 12:01 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

> 
> On Feb 15, 2013, at 1:14 AM, jas wrote:
> 
>> Hello David,
>> thanks again for your reply.
>> 
>> Two things remain unclear. That the data is disjointed is ok, as there are
>> only values in hectares, where there are actually buildings and stuff,
>> forest/nature is NA. 
>> 
>> The presp-scan that I get from persp(grd) has no similarity to the image in
>> 2d. My guess is that the order and regularity in the data somehow gets lost
>> in the process of making the matrix?! 
> 
> I think the disjointedness is the problem. There are many values where there 
> is no adjacent value in one direction of another and so no tessellation can 
> be formed. If you look at the image result and note the places where there 
> are "solid values" in both x and y directions I think the overall patterns 
> match up. The image result is more faithful to the data.
> 
>> 
>> The grid-extraction that I uploaded contains 40x20 cells. if its a bigger
>> grid with 7million cells, does it still work the same way or can the vectors
>> only be a maximum of 100 cells? 
> 
> Might be a performance problem although I don't think it is theoretically 
> impossible. An 8000 x 8000 matrix consumed my full CPU resources and 
> essentially locked up my session. I'm in the process of deciding when to halt 
> it.
> 
> Are you aware that there are far more knowledgeable persons than I that hang 
> out at the R-SIG-Geo list?
> 
> -- 
> David
> 
>> 
>> Thank you for your help
>> jas
>> 
>> 
>> 
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