Re: Suggestion for dgrid3d

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

Thanks.

I am happy to develop and send in a patch,
provided we can agree that this is a good
path forward and is likely to be adopted if
a sufficiently high-quality implementation is
available.

Best,

		Ph.



On Monday 29 October 2007 14:58, you wrote:
> > > We do consider backward compatibility a bit of a holy grail in this
> > > project.  It's always bad if a change to the program modifies the
> > > result of a previously established usage.  So new features (like a
> > > modified weight function) should always be introduced such that they're
> > > only triggered by commands that would have done nothing useful in
> > > earlier versions.
> >
> > That's fine - this is the reason why I suggested adding
> > an additional (optional) argument to dgrid3d, which
> > allows the user to select the smoothing kernel. It would
> > default to the current kernel (thus not breaking any
> > existing apps), but allows users to make a different
> > choice for new development.
>
> It would be nice to have options in "set dgrid3d" to choose the gridding
> method. Nowadays, the "thin splines method" as an alternative can only be
> chosen at compile time. The run-time option would be much better.
>
> I think this issue has been discussed long time, but it is still not
> implemented.
>
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> PM