Aargh.  I just reread the docs, particularly about intersecting ranges,
and this is not supported.

Sorry about the line noise. 


On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:25 -0500, Diab Jerius wrote:
> I'm trying to simulate the effects of spectral pileup in a detector.  
> Incoming event are transformed into a pseudo-Gaussian shaped signal
> (f(t)).  If two or more events occur too close together their signals
> overlap.
> 
> As a prototype I thought I could use the range operator to construct
> views onto a piddle that would allow me to easily add overlapping
> signals.
> 
> For example, given
> 
>         $ph : the signal function with dimension [$nsample]
>         $t:   the arrival time of events with dimension [$nevents]
>         $buffer: the coadded signals
>         
> Then
> 
>         $bp = $buffer->range($t->transpose,$nsample)->transpose;
> 
> is a set of $nsample windows onto $buffer, some of which may overlap.
> Theoretically I could then perform
> 
>         $bp += $ph
> 
> and $buffer would contain the coadded signals.  Alas, this doesn't seem
> to work.  Here's an abstracted example
> 
>         $z = xvals(20);
>         $v = $z->range( pdl( 1,8 )->transpose, 9 )->transpose;
>         
>         p $z
>         [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19]
>         
>         p $v
>         
>         [
>          [ 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9]
>          [ 8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16]
>         ]
> 
> So, $v is a set of two overlapping windows onto $z.  But,
>           
>         $v += 1;
>         
>         p $v
>         
>         [
>          [ 2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10]
>          [ 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17]
>         ]
>         
>         p $z
>         [0 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 19]
>         
> The addition is only done once per element in $z, not once per element
> in $v. I expected $v to look like this:
> 
>         [
>          [ 2  3  4  5  6  7  8 10 11]
>          [10 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17]
>         ]
>         
> and thus for $z to look like this
>         
>         [0 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 19]
>         
> 
> Bug or feature?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Diab
> 
> 
> 
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