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Re: area inside tracings [message #66550 is a reply to message #66549]

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:52

David Fanning
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Brian Larsen writes:

> Something like this seems promising
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick%27s_theorem
>
> Anyone ever thought about this?

If your object is a simple polygon or "blob", as in
the description above, then Find_Boundary will
automatically find the boundary pixels for you
and calculate perimeter distance, center, and area (in
two slightly different, but correct, ways).

http://www.dfanning.com/programs/find_boundary.pro

Cheers,

David
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