Re: [Numpy-discussion] swig numpy2carray converters

2007-11-21 Thread Bill Spotz
On Nov 21, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Georg Holzmann wrote: > BTW: what is the difference between PyArray_SimpleNewFromData() and > PyArray_FromDimsAndData() ? > (I don't have this book ...) PyArray_SimpleNewFromData() is the new version and PyArray_FromDimsAndData() is the old version :-) Travis ma

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy : your experiences?

2007-11-21 Thread Jan Strube
> >> a) Can you guys tell me briefly about the kind of problems you are >> tackling with numpy and scipy? > > I'm using python with numpy,scipy, pytables and matplotlib for data > analysis in the field of high energy particle physics. Most of the > work is histograming millions of events, fitting

Re: [Numpy-discussion] OT: A Way to Approximate and Compress a 3DSurface

2007-11-21 Thread Robert Kern
Andrew Straw wrote: > Christopher Barker wrote: >>> For data interpolation: 2D-Delaunay triangulation based method (I think you >>> can find one in the scipy cookbook). >> yup -- but then you need the decimation to remove the "unneeded" >> points. I don't think Scipy has that. > > The sandbox d

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy : your experiences?

2007-11-21 Thread Lou Pecora
Brian Granger wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007 7:33 AM, Lou Pecora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Lately, I've been coding up a package to solved >> Schrodinger's Equation for 2D arbitrarily shaped, >> infinite wall potentials. I've settled on a Boundary >> Element Approach to get the eigenfunctions

Re: [Numpy-discussion] OT: A Way to Approximate and Compress a 3D Surface

2007-11-21 Thread Bob Lewis
On 11/20/07, Anne Archibald posted: > Subject: > Re: [Numpy-discussion] OT: A Way to Approximate and Compress a 3D Surface > From: > "Anne Archibald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:13:31 -0500 > To: > "Discussion of Numerical Python" > > To: > "Discussion of Numerical Python"

Re: [Numpy-discussion] OT: A Way to Approximate and Compress a 3DSurface

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Straw
Christopher Barker wrote: >> For data interpolation: 2D-Delaunay triangulation based method (I think you >> can find one in the scipy cookbook). > > yup -- but then you need the decimation to remove the "unneeded" > points. I don't think Scipy has that. The sandbox does, thanks to Robert Kern.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] swig numpy2carray converters

2007-11-21 Thread Christopher Barker
Georg Holzmann wrote: > As chris said, I need to make an example: > http://grh.mur.at/software/numpy2carray.tar.gz Ah, I see now: /// @return internal big data without copying void getBigData(double **mtx, int *rows, int *cols) { *rows = drows; *cols = dcols; *mtx = very_big_da

Re: [Numpy-discussion] swig numpy2carray converters

2007-11-21 Thread Georg Holzmann
Hallo! As chris said, I need to make an example: http://grh.mur.at/software/numpy2carray.tar.gz I added the following class-example: class_example.h: the C++ code class_example.i: the SWIG interface file class_example_usage.py: example usage in python And some comments: Bill Spotz schrieb: > H

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy : your experiences?

2007-11-21 Thread Brian Granger
On Nov 20, 2007 7:33 AM, Lou Pecora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lately, I've been coding up a package to solved > Schrodinger's Equation for 2D arbitrarily shaped, > infinite wall potentials. I've settled on a Boundary > Element Approach to get the eigenfunctions in these > systems. The goal is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] OT: A Way to Approximate and Compress a 3DSurface

2007-11-21 Thread Christopher Barker
Nadav Horesh wrote: > Wouldn't a random or regular subsampling of the set will do the job? > I have N tabulated data points { (x_i, y_i, z_i) } that describes a 3D > surface. The surface is pretty "smooth." If it's equally "smooth" everywhere, then yes, a subsampling would work fine, but I'm g

Re: [Numpy-discussion] swig numpy2carray converters

2007-11-21 Thread Christopher Barker
David.Goldsmith wrote: > Chris, just to be clear, this is addressed to the OP, correct? yes, but if anyone else want to come up with one, that would work too. -Chris >> What would be great is a simple trimmed down example -- a >> small-as-you-can-make-it class with a method that shows what you

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy : your experiences?

2007-11-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> a) Can you guys tell me briefly about the kind of problems you are > tackling with numpy and scipy? I'm using python with numpy,scipy, pytables and matplotlib for data analysis in the field of high energy particle physics. Most of the work is histograming millions of events, fitting functions t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] OT: A Way to Approximate and Compress a 3DSurface

2007-11-21 Thread Nadav Horesh
Wouldn't a random or regular subsampling of the set will do the job? For data interpolation: 2D-Delaunay triangulation based method (I think you can find one in the scipy cookbook). Nadav. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Geoffrey Zhu Sent: Tue 20-Nov-07 19:50

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy : your experiences?

2007-11-21 Thread Karol Langner
On Saturday 17 November 2007 03:50, Rahul Garg wrote: > a) Can you guys tell me briefly about the kind of problems you are > tackling with numpy and scipy? Organizing jobs in computational chemistry, and parsing/analyzing the output. To some extent, also some actual calculations and visualization

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy : your experiences?

2007-11-21 Thread Robert Cimrman
Rahul Garg wrote: > It would be awesome if you guys could respond to some of the following > questions : > a) Can you guys tell me briefly about the kind of problems you are > tackling with numpy and scipy? I am using both numpy and scipy to solve PDEs in the context of finite element method (ela