Hello Julien,
Thanks you for your quick response. When I said "continuous
simulations" I was referring to something I read in:
Chilès, Jean-Paul, and
Christian Lantuéjoul. “Prediction by Conditional Simulation:
Models and Algorithms.” In Space, Structure and Randomness, edited by Michel Bilodeau,
Fernand Meyer, and Michel Schmitt, 39–68. Lecture Notes in
Statistics 183. Springer New York, 2005. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-387-29115-6_3.
To quote this text:
"Discrete and
continuous algorithms do not work the same way. A discrete algorithm is designed
to assign a value directly to each point of the simulation field. In
contrast to this, a continuous algorithm produces a set of
basic ingredients
that summarizes the simulation content. These ingredients
can subsequently
be used to derive the value at each point of the simulation
field. The
main advantage of continuous algorithms is that they make
simulations available at any
spatial resolution." ... "All algorithms
developed by Matheron are continuous. The most typical example is the
so-called turning bands algorithm to simulate a GRF [44,
46]."
I am not very
knowledgeable regarding the different conditional simulation
algorithms. However, if I end up implementing any other
conditional simulation methods in Matlab during my research
I would be happy to share them.
Thanks,
Nat