A method of mapping a first array to a second array is useful where (1) each
of
the arrays has pixels in sequential columns and rows and the first array has sequential
integers identifying each row of pixels, (2) sequential integers identify each
column of pixels, and a numerical value is associated with each pixel, (3) the
first and second arrays have (or can be made to have) a one to one pairing between
columns of the first and second arrays, and (4) groups of four unique pixels in
the same column of the first array are paired one to one with a pixel in the paired
column of the second array. The method includes the steps of, for each column in
the first array, selecting the values associated with the pixels in four sequential
odd numbered rows to form an odd group of four unique pixels, combining the values
associated with the pixels in the first three odd numbered rows of the odd group
to form an odd combined value, and mapping the odd combined value to the pixel
in the column and row of the second array with which the odd group is paired, and
thereafter selecting the values associated with the pixels in four even numbered
rows to form an even group of four unique pixels, combining the values associated
with pixels in the last three rows of the even group to form an even combined value,
and mapping the even combined value to the pixel in column and row of the second
array with which the even group is paired.