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In article <3eb6acc2$1@news.povray.org> , "Jaap Frank" <jjf### [at] xs4all nl>
wrote:
> Because I need a high order interpolation and I don't want to throw away
> months of work, I've decided to build a binary tree of function that contain
> all the array values. I estimate that it will come to around 40 thousand
> rather small functions.
Write the numbers to a PPM image. Use multiple pixels, i.e. four pixels to
store numbers. Then write a single function to build a number out of it
from a pattern. Load the image as pattern and apply the function. Now you
have an array, and it will be really fast and consume very little memory!
Thorsten
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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
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