Re: SparseArray, DensityGraphics, ContourGraphics, and SurfaceGraphics
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- Subject: [mg54706] Re: SparseArray, DensityGraphics, ContourGraphics, and SurfaceGraphics
- From: Jon Harrop <usenet at jdh30.plus.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:29:54 -0500 (EST)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Jens-Peer Kuska wrote: > what has a sparse matrix to do with a density graphics ? RLE. > ArrayPlot[] is only used to visualize the sparse matrix, but > all the memory saving of the sparse matrix are destroyed when you > expand every entry in the matrix (not only the non zero values) to a > 3D Polygon[] with 4 corners in Plot3D[] ... Only if you tesselate uniformly. If you adaptively subdivide then you can retain sparseness. > It seems a good design decision not to support this nonsens ... The OPs question is perfectly valid. The answer, I suspect, is simply that WRI have not yet implemented it. Although not insurmountable, this is not a trivial problem to solve properly. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy http://ffconsultancy.com