Yes, I'm thinking some sort of functional, rather than table lookup, version would be useful. The table lookup is fast, but has its limitations for this kind of problem. I'll think a bit about it too. This kind of request comes up regularly (in one form or another) that it deserves some sort of solution.
Perry
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On Aug 2, 2005, at 5:30 PM, Danny Shevitz wrote:
But... your last idea is superb. Why not a different way of doing it? How about instead of a lookup table, I just
write a colormap that has three user defined functions. Then I could do the thresholding exactly. It seems like
it would be pretty easy to do. I had originally thought colormaps were needed because graphics drivers had finite resolutions
so you couldn't put up too many colors. So, if I were to create a "functionColormap" instead of a "linearSegmentedColormap"
with millions of points in the image is there a danger I would run out of colors or is there some internal rounding or truncation
to prevent this? If there is no problem, then a new colormap subclass is definately the way to go. I assume it would be slower, but
I'm not sure it matters.D