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@@ -51,10 +51,12 @@ Here is a simple sample file in the 3D case::
1. 1. 1.
+.. _Perseus file format:
+
Perseus
*******
-This file format is the format used by the
+This file format is a format inspired from the
`Perseus software <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vnanda/perseus/>`_ by Vidit Nanda.
The first line contains a number d begin the dimension of the bitmap (2 in the
example below). Next d lines are the numbers of top dimensional cubes in each
@@ -88,3 +90,9 @@ Indicate that we have imposed periodic boundary conditions in the direction x,
but not in the direction y.
Other sample files can be found in the `data/bitmap` folder.
+
+.. note::
+ Unlike in Perseus format the filtration on the maximal cubes can be any
+ double precision number. Consequently one cannot mark the cubes that are
+ not present with ``-1``'s. To do that please set their filtration value to
+ :math:`+\infty` (aka. ``inf`` in the file). \ No newline at end of file