3.5

ThresholdMD v1

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ThresholdMD dialog.

Summary

Threshold an MDHistoWorkspace.

Properties

Name Direction Type Default Description
InputWorkspace Input IMDHistoWorkspace Mandatory An input workspace.
Condition Input string Less Than Selected threshold condition. Any value which does meet this condition with respect to the ReferenceValue will be overwritten. Allowed values: [‘Less Than’, ‘Greater Than’]
ReferenceValue Input number 0 Comparator value used by the Condition.
OverwriteWithZero Input boolean True Flag for enabling overwriting with a custom value. Defaults to overwrite signals with zeros.
CustomOverwriteValue Input number 0 Custom overwrite value for the signal. Defaults to zero.
OutputWorkspace Output IMDHistoWorkspace Mandatory Output thresholded workspace.

Description

This algorithm applies a simple linear transformation to a MDWorkspace or MDHistoWorkspace. This could be used, for example, to scale the Energy dimension to different units.

Each coordinate is tranformed so that x'_d = (x_d * s_d) + o_d where:

  • d : index of the dimension, from 0 to the number of dimensions
  • s : value of the Scaling parameter
  • o : value of the Offset parameter.

You can specify either a single value for Scaling and Offset, in which case the same m_scaling or m_offset are applied to each dimension; or you can specify a list with one entry for each dimension.

Notes

The relationship between the workspace and the original MDWorkspace, for example when the MDHistoWorkspace is the result of BinMD v1, is lost. This means that you cannot re-bin a transformed MDHistoWorkspace.

No units are not modified by this algorithm.

Performance Notes

  • Performing the operation in-place (input=output) is always faster because the first step of the algorithm if NOT in-place is to clone the original workspace.
  • For MDHistoWorkspaces done in-place, TransformMD is very quick (no data is modified, just the coordinates).
  • For MDWorkspaces, every event’s coordinates gets modified, so this may take a while for large workspaces.
  • For file-backed MDWorkspaces, you will find much better performance if you perform the change in-place (input=output), because the data gets written out to disk twice otherwise.

Usage

Example - Threshold a small workspace:

# Create input workspace
CreateMDWorkspace(Dimensions=3, Extents='-10,10,-10,10,-10,10', Names='A,B,C', Units='U,U,U', OutputWorkspace='demo')
FakeMDEventData(InputWorkspace='demo', PeakParams='32,0,0,0,1')
threshold_input = BinMD(InputWorkspace='demo', AlignedDim0='A,-2,2,4', AlignedDim1='B,-2,2,4', AlignedDim2='C,-2,2,4')

# Run the algorithm to set all values greater than 4 to zero
threshold_output = ThresholdMD(InputWorkspace='threshold_input', Condition='Greater Than', ReferenceValue=4)

# Print selection before and after
print "selected bins before threshold greater than 4",threshold_input.getSignalArray()[1,1]
print "same bins after threshold greater than 4",threshold_output.getSignalArray()[1,1]

Output:

selected bins before threshold greater than 4 [ 0.  4.  5.  0.]
same bins after threshold greater than 4 [ 0.  4.  0.  0.]

Categories: Algorithms | MDAlgorithms

Source

C++ source: ThresholdMD.cpp

C++ header: ThresholdMD.h