On Friday, September 10, 2010 03:40:33 am Sebastian Haase wrote: > Hi Luis, > > thanks for the announcement. How would you compare mahotas to scipy's > ndimage ? Are you using ndimage in mahotas at all ?
Hi Sebastian, In general there is little overlap (there are 1 or 2 functions which are replicated). I wrote mahotas mostly to get functions that I wasn't finding elsewhere (or, occasionally, to make them faster). Ndimage, in some ways, contains more basic functions, mahotas has a bit more advanced functions (at the cost of having a somewhat idiosyncratically chosen set of functions). I do use ndimage in a couple of places (mostly to do convolution). So, they complement themselves rather than compete. Here are a couple of differences in philosophy: - ndimage is *always* n-D. Mahotas is mostly n-D but some functions are specialised to 2-D (patches always welcome if you want to extend them). - mahotas is written in templated C++, ndimage is C with macros. - ndimage tries to be very generic in its interfaces (which makes some of them hard to use at first), mahotas tries to have natural interfaces. HTH, Luis
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