Dear Hennig - the following paper should be of interest to you: RJ White and L Winokur (2003) 'Quantitative description and discrimination of butterfly wing patterns using moment invariant analysis' Bulletin of Entomological Research 93, 361-374.
Best Wishes Don Kirkup Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. England. > Dear Listers, > I would like to know, if there is anybody out there working with (or > has done anything with) ornamentation, like sculpture of shells or > colour pattern of organisms. Is it possible to quantify different > types of ornamentation and compare them among one another, to > understand changes of ornamentation during the growth process of an > organism, for example? I'm not sure whether the software available at > Stony Brook can help, because most programs need landmark data and the > type of ornamentation I'm working with, give non-landmark data. Any > help is appreciated. > > Best wishes > Henning Scholz > > --------------------------------------- > Dr. Henning Scholz > Humboldt-UniversitÃt zu Berlin > Museum fÃr Naturkunde > Institut fÃr PalÃontologie > InvalidenstraÃe 43 > 10115 Berlin > Tel.: +49-30-2093-8659 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > Replies will be sent to the list. > For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org > -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
