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Re: VARRAY, memory & extracting subarrays [message #25603 is a reply to message #25602]

Mon, 02 July 2001 05:27

Richard French
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Registered: December 2000

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You've probably thought about this, but it appears that your images
array is a stack of images (a 3-D array) - if you can get away with
processing a single image at a time, or extracting a subsection of
each image in succession, you can always use the ASSOC command to
set up an associated variable. This is very handy when you are working
with a huge number of individual images. For example, let's say
you had 20 images of size 500 x 600:

images = fltarr(500,600,20)

and you wanted to make a sub=array of (100:300, 200:400, 11:14) of
this hunk. You could do:

openr,lun,/GET_LUN,image_file
image=ASSOC(fltarr(500,600))

sub_array=fltarr(201,201,4)

for i=11,14 do begin
sub_array[0,0,i]=(image[i])[100:300,200:400]
endfor

THis way, you never need to have the entire large image cube in
memory at a given time.

I do this all the time for sequences of astronomical images which
are stored in time order in an image cube. For your application, it
may or may not be a time-saver.

Hope this helps,

Dick French

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		Re: VARRAY, memory & extracting subarrays By: Kristine Hensel on Mon, 02 July 2001 17:23
		Re: VARRAY, memory & extracting subarrays By: Richard French on Mon, 02 July 2001 05:29
		Re: VARRAY, memory & extracting subarrays By: Richard French on Mon, 02 July 2001 05:28
		Re: VARRAY, memory & extracting subarrays By: Richard French on Mon, 02 July 2001 05:27
		Re: VARRAY, memory & extracting subarrays By: Kristine Hensel on Mon, 02 July 2001 00:38
		Re: VARRAY, memory & extracting subarrays By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 01 July 2001 22:10

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