Re: Flatten and BlockProcessing
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- Subject: [mg65661] Re: Flatten and BlockProcessing
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:00:14 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 4/11/06 at 4:04 AM, maarten.vanderburgt at icos.be (Maarten van der
Burgt) wrote:
>I have a structure M:
>M = {{{{a, b}, {e, f}}, {{c, d}, {g, h}}}, {{{k, l}, {o, p}}, {{m,
>n}, {q, r}}}}
>M//Dimensions
>gives
>{2, 2, 2, 2},
>(or more general {n1, n2, m1, m2}; M is the result of the
>BlockProcessing function from the Image Processing package)
>Does anyone know an elegant way of 'flattening' M to give
>{{a, b, c, d}, {e, f, g, h}, {k, l, m, n}, {o, p, q, r}}
>with dimensions {4, 4} (or more general {n1*m1, n2*m2})?
Elegance often depends on the user. But the following will do what you want for the example given
In[21]:=
M = {{{{a, b}, {e, f}}, {{c, d}, {g, h}}},
{{{k, l}, {o, p}}, {{m, n}, {q, r}}}};
Join@@@Flatten[Transpose[M, {1, 3, 2}], 1]
Out[22]=
{{a, b, c, d}, {e, f, g, h}, {k, l, m, n}, {o, p, q, r}}
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