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Re: A Penny for Thought

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  • Subject: [mg30123] Re: A Penny for Thought
  • From: "Orestis Vantzos" <atelesforos at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:26:16 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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I suppose you  intend to scan the penny in grayscale and then import the
image to Mathematica.
If you do that, you will get a RasterArray.
Then you must turn the Raster object into a normal matrix. Interpolate using
ListInterpolation to get a function, which you can then use to get its
contour plot('height map') and then differentiate once ('slope map') and
twice('local curvature map').
Orestis

<Moranresearch at aol.com> wrote in message news:9jvr7l$dns$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>
> I wish to aquire an image of a penny (1 cent) and display it as three
> separate color coded countour maps
> 1. height map: color corresponding to height
> 2. slope map: the first derivative of height map
> 3. local curvature map: the second derivative of height map
> Any suggestions welcome.
> Thank you.
> John R Moran PhD, MD
>
>




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