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sparse 2-D lookup
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Jeff Abrahamson |
Subject: |
sparse 2-D lookup |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:43:22 -0400 |
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I want an array of (x,y,z) triples. The problem is that x and y come
from the same very large set, but very few (x,y) pairs will actually
be used. The z value is computed based on x and y, so this is really
a function f(x,y) = z.
Naively I'd create a sparse array, but sparse arrays seem (it's not
clear, though) to become regular arrays if I add elements to them.
Thus,
v = sparse(10000000,10000000)
v =
Compressed Column Sparse (rows=10000000, cols=10000000, nnz=0)
octave:3> v(1,1) = 1
(and memory usage jumps to near 2 GB and my machine slows to a crawl).
Any suggestions on how to do the bookkeeping?
The particular task is that I want to subdivide a triangulated surface
using midpoints of edges. So I have a 3 x n array vertices and a 3 x n
of triangles. I want to add midpoints to the vertex array, but I
don't want to add each midpoint twice, so I want an efficient lookup
mechanism so I can say "Is the midpoint of (x,y) already assigned? If
yes, what is its index in the vertex array, if no add it for me."
Thanks much for any pointers.
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Jeff
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