I have a 2d array, A, with shape (n x m), where each element of the array at position (i,j) holds a third value k. I want to increment a 3d array with dimensions nxmxl at position (k,i,j) based on the 2d array value and position.
So for example if
A = [[0,1],[3,3]] -> I would want B to be [[[1,0], [0,0]], [0,1], [0,0]], [0,0], [0,1]], [0,0], [0,2]]]
How do you do this in numpy efficiently?
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Answer
The question is somewhat ambiguous, but if the intent is to increment some unknown array B at indices (0,0,0), (1,0,1), (3,1,0), and (3,1,1), then the following should be fine:
B[(A.ravel(), ) + np.unravel_index(np.arange(np.prod(A.shape)), A.shape)] += increment
For example:
A = np.array([[0,1],[3,3]])
B = np.zeros((4,2,2), dtype=int)
increment = 1
B[(A.ravel(), ) + np.unravel_index(np.arange(np.prod(A.shape)), A.shape)] += increment
>>> B
array([[[1, 0],
[0, 0]],
[[0, 1],
[0, 0]],
[[0, 0],
[0, 0]],
[[0, 0],
[1, 1]]])
Another way of doing the same thing is:
w, h = A.shape indices = (A.ravel(),) + tuple(np.mgrid[:w, :h].reshape(2, -1)) # then B[indices] += increment