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Subject: Re: R with 3D?
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 04:38:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Kunkel <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
CC: Joseph Kunkel <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Abby,

I think I understand your problem.  That is why I chose the
Microscribe digitizer that would allow a definitive choice of a
specific xyz location by the stylus point.  I trust my eyes using
magnifying glasses to choose a 3-D point in real-time-color than the
monochrome digitizer landscape.

But your laser cloud should be ordered into scan lines, yes?   I would
write an R-script that could have the three alternate 2-D views of the
locale to be seen simultaneously and then use the mouse functions to
chose two or three of the best coordinate pairs and some averaging
function allow that guess of where the landmark is to be calculated
and viewed in another window in rgl.  It might also allow
interpolating between nearest scan points.

Good luck.  I for one would like to see such a library function
available since it might make laser scanning more attractive to me.

Joe Kunkel
[email protected]

On May 13, 2009, at 3:07 AM, morphmet wrote:



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: R with 3D?
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:31:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Abby Drake <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

Any R experts out there?

I want to capture landmarks and eventually semilandmarks off my 3D
point cloud data obtained from laser scans. I picked up the
Morphometrics with R book and have found both the book and R very easy
to use.
However the 'locator' function used for capturing the landmarks in 2D
does not seem to work in any of the 3D plotting packages. I tried
scatterplot3d, cloud and now rgl. rgl is great because it lets you
rotate and zoom with the mouse. Is there a function I'm missing that
will also let me select landmarks like 'locator' does for 2D?

Thanks for your help!
Abby



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