#from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13815719/creating-grid-with-numpy-performance #pythran export create_grid(float []) #setup: import numpy as np ; N = 800 ; x = np.arange(0,1,1./N) #run: create_grid(x) import numpy as np def create_grid(x): N = x.shape[0] z = np.zeros((N, N, 3)) z[:,:,0] = x.reshape(-1,1) z[:,:,1] = x fast_grid = z.reshape(N*N, 3) return fast_grid