Re: What is the fastest way to threshold data?
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- Subject: [mg85959] Re: [mg85898] What is the fastest way to threshold data?
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:00:27 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net
data /. {x_, y_, z_?Negative} -> {x, y, 0}
or more generally for a threshold
data /. {x_, y_, z_ /; z < threshold} -> {x, y, threshold}
Bob Hanlon
---- "Kevin J. McCann" <Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu> wrote:
> I have some 3d data {{x1,y1,z1},{x2,y2,z2},...} and I would like to set
> the z-values to zero if they fall below zero. More generally, I would
> like to set z to a threshold value if it is at or below a threshold.
> This seems as though it should be an easy enough thing to do, but the
> only way I have figured out is to parse out the z-vector, do
>
> mask=((#<thresh&) /@ zdata)/.True->0/.False->1;
>
> then
> zvector = zvector*mask;
>
> and rebuild the {x,y,z} data.
>
> Kevin
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