I am working with matrices of (x,y,z) dimensions, and would like to index numerous values from this matrix simultaneously.
ie. if the index A[0,0,0] = 5
and A[1,1,1] = 10
A[[1,1,1], [5,5,5]] = [5, 10]
however indexing like this seems to return huge chunks of the matrix.
Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? I have a large array of indices (n, x, y, z) that i need to use to index from A)
Thanks
You are trying to use 1 as the first index 3 times and 5 as the index into the second dimension (again three times). This will give you the element at A[1,5,:] repeated three times.
A = np.random.rand(6,6,6);
B = A[[1,1,1], [5,5,5]]
# [[ 0.17135991, 0.80554887, 0.38614418, 0.55439258, 0.66504806, 0.33300839],
# [ 0.17135991, 0.80554887, 0.38614418, 0.55439258, 0.66504806, 0.33300839],
# [ 0.17135991, 0.80554887, 0.38614418, 0.55439258, 0.66504806, 0.33300839]]
B.shape
# (3, 6)
Instead, you will want to specify [1,5] for each axis of your matrix.
A[[1,5], [1,5], [1,5]] = [5, 10]
Advanced indexing works like this:
A[I, J, K][n] == A[I[n], J[n], K[n]]
with A, I, J, and K all arrays. That's not the full, general rule, but it's what the rules simplify down to for what you need.
For example, if you want output[0] == A[0, 0, 0] and output[1] == A[1, 1, 1], then your I, J, and K arrays should look like np.array([0, 1]). Lists also work:
A[[0, 1], [0, 1], [0, 1]]
