[SciPy-Dev] FFTLog

Dieter Werthmüller dieter at werthmuller.org
Mon Oct 31 20:12:49 EDT 2016


Great. I am out of the office most of November. I will pick it up latest 
in December again and see how far I get with my knowledge, and come back 
for help if I am lost.

Dieter

On 31/10/16 03:59, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Dieter Werthmüller
> <dieter at werthmuller.org <mailto:dieter at werthmuller.org>> wrote:
>
>     I agree, probably the best would be to use the already existing FFTPACK
>     and the already existing complex gamma function, which would mean only
>     one file, fftlog.f, has to be added.
>
>     In this regard, it might be best to first ask if there is sufficient
>     interest for a logarithmic FFT, as you point out Joshua, before
>     investing more time. Any opinions? For anyone interested I list the
>     website of the original FFTLog again:
>     http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/FFTLog
>     <http://casa.colorado.edu/%7Eajsh/FFTLog>
>
>
> I haven't come across a use case for this myself, but the original paper
> [1] is highly cited and the citation come from a range of fields. The
> one fftlog.f file doesn't look worse than the average Fortran file, so
> this will likely be okay to maintain. So I'm fine with adding this feature.
>
> Ralf
>
> [1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0021999178901079
>
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