[Insight-developers] itk vs vnl / Vector & Matrix

[Robert Tamburo]

Okie dokie, finding the 1). smallest value in a vector and 2). the average
of values in a vector would be useful for me.

- Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez@kitware.com>
To: "Robert Tamburo" <rjtst21@pitt.edu>
Cc: "Insight-Developers (E-mail)" <insight-developers@public.kitware.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] itk vs vnl / Vector & Matrix


> Robert Tamburo wrote:
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> >Would it be unreasonable to give itkVector more of the mathematical
> >operations that vnl_vector has?
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> It depends on how complex these operations may be...
> If you are looking for advanced operations (let's say a FFT),
> it will be better to use vnl_vectors directly.
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> however if we are missing something fundamental (like  Normalize()
> that was recently added after a Damion's request)   it will be just
> a matter of pointing this out and we will add it.
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> itkVector also provide a couple of convenience method for
> converting to and from vnl_vectors but doing that in a large
> number of them will result in a performance hit.
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> You may want to check the itkVector.h and itkPoint.h files
> to see is there is any missing functionality.
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