[SciPy-Dev] Draft Proposal

[Stéfan van der Walt]

Hi Jennifer

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Jennifer Janani
<jenny.stone125 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2.1.Improving spherical harmonic functions:
>
> The function for spherical harmonic function, sph_harm at present calls lpmn thus evaluating all orders <N. On the other hand, lpmv avoids the storage of values small N's by using recursion. Therefore an attempt can be made to avoid the overheads by directly evaluating the function for given degree and order.

Do you know how one would approach this?  What are the trade-offs to
the current approach?

GSoC proposals usually also include a reference to any PRs you might
have made to the project so far.

Regards
Stéfan