Re: thresholding/color question

[davidf(at)dfanning.com (David Fanning)]

Alex Schuster (alex@pet.mpin-koeln.mpg.de) writes:

> Isn"t the usage of WHERE discouraged because of being slow? 

If it is, it's news to me. :-)

> I always use direct matrix operation for this, like:
> 
> redmask = scaledImage GT threshold
> scaledImage = scaled_Image * (1B-redmask) + byte(!D.Table_Size-2) *
> redmask

I don't doubt there are speed advantages in matrix operations,
but unless you had a huge image I doubt very much you 
would notice. And even then, the increase in speed would probably
be more than offset by the additional memory usage.

Plus, I don't have a clue what this code is doing when I
read it! Simple things for simple folk, is my motto. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. If my memory serves, Alex, aren't you the one with
the 10 quadrillion Megs of RAM on your machine? Perhaps 
matrix operations *are* the best thing for you. :-) 
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