I accept and thank you very much for your proposition. This will
facilitate my work and save time.
Stéphane
> Message du 06/12/07 15:41
> De : "morphmet"
> A : "morphmet"
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> Objet : Re: missing points and symetrization
>
> Hi
> I wrote functions in R that do this (align along the midline
plane, and
> either average left and right or fill in NA's based on the other
> side).I'll be happy to send it to you and anyone else who's
interested.
> I've been meaning to put them online but I don't even have a
website yet
> and no time so far to make one...
> Best,
> Annat
>
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>
> > From: morphmet
> > Reply-To:
> > Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:10:48 +0100
> > To: morphmet
> > Subject: missing points and symetrization
> > Resent-From:
> > Resent-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 01:12:10 -0800 (PST)
> >
> > I a m working on human skulls fossiles. Therefore there are many
missing
> > points and I decided to replace the bilateral points by the symetric
> > (right<->left) points. (Of course this does not solve the
problem when
> > the missing points have no symetric and when both symetric are
missing.)
> > I am working on 3D data and found only morpheus to partially
answer my
> > problem:
> > 1) For each individual I construct the symetric by changing the
sign of
> > one coordinate (x, y or z)
> > 2) I import each individual and its symetric to Morpheus then do
a gpa
> > of those 2 images (individual and its symetric)
> > 3) I use the consensus, unscaled, for the further work (gpa, pca
> > etc...with the R shapes library of Ian Dryden) on all my skulls
> > Therefore, I am working on completely symetric skulls because all
> > symetric points (right and left) are averaged.
> > I did this procedure one by one, which is a little bothering and
working
> > like a donkey. This was possible with my 100 skulls used in my
master
> > degree, but no more now with hundreds of Pan, Gorilla, Homo etc...
> > I am now looking for an automatic procedure to do this job. Do
anyone
> > know a software that could help ?
> >
> > Thank youy for your answers
> >
> > Stéphane BOUEE, Paris, France
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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