[Numpy-discussion] repmat equivalent?

[Albert Strasheim]

Hello all

On 2/23/06, Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:31:47PM +0200, Albert Strasheim wrote:
> > More than 2 dimensions is tricky, since NumPy and MATLAB don't seem to
> > agree on how more-dimensional data is organised? As such, I don't know
> > what a NumPy user would expect repmat to do with more than 2
> > dimensions.
>
> To expand on this, here is what I see when I create (M,N,3) matrices
> in both octave and numpy.  I expect to see an MxN matrix stacked 3
> high:

<snip>

There are other (unexpected, for me at least) differences between
MATLAB/Octave and NumPy too. For a 3D array in MATLAB, only indexing
on the last dimension yields a 2D array, where NumPy always returns a
2D array.

I put some examples for the 3D case at:

http://students.ee.sun.ac.za/~albert/numscipy.html

Regards

Albert