> The second thing I'll try (after trying > your suggestion) is based on this paper which I found in the meantime: > http://salesin.cs.washington.edu/abstracts.html#MultiresQuery > In case anyone is interested, it describes a multiresolution querying > algorithm and best of all, it has pseudo code for the various steps. I > don't know yet how difficult the implementation will be but so far > this looks the most promising.
Actually, the exact same algorithm has already been implemented in ....... drum roll ............ python! http://members.tripod.com/~edcjones/pycode.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list