Hi,
Concerning the setting “PCA/simple particles per reconstruction”, the description states that ranges of 1000-5000 are best for “simple” mode, or 100-500 for PCA. Is there some reason to use less particles for density initialization with PCA? Or is this purely for optimizing speed?
Cheers
Oli
Hey @olibclarke,
Nope, you are right on – this recommendation is largely there for computational efficiency reasons. In internal testing, we haven’t seen a significant difference in PCA mode initializations for larger settings of ‘particles per reconstruction’. Since computing 100+ reconstructions with 1000+ particles each can be time consuming, I kept the recommendation in the current form. Please do let me know if you find it useful to use larger values for different datasets.
Valentin
Great, thanks for confirming Valentin!
Cheers
Oli
