On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Robert Jördens <jord...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Stéfan van der Walt <ste...@sun.ac.za> > wrote: > > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Travis Oliphant <tra...@continuum.io> > wrote: > >> I could see these functions going into scipy.ndimage but again because > they > >> are not necessarily just image processing functions, and the fact that > they > >> are so simple, perhaps they are best put into NumPy itself. > > > > I'm wondering about the general applicability of these functions. Can > > anyone suggest some use cases? > > An example from solid state physics: > If you have a spin chain with some long-range interaction and you have > the known, dense, coupling matrix J, sum_angle(J, pi/4) gives you a > view at the distance dependence of the interaction. > > I'd like to see these functions is scipy somewhere. The function names aren't very descriptive and the one line summaries don't give a very good idea of what they do, so I think those bits could use improvement. Mention of the Hough/Radon transform would help, I had to pull out that connection by reading the code... Chuck
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