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Subject: Re: history of geometric morphometrics
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 12:31:26 -0400
From: Joseph Kunkel <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Andrea,
Two historically interesting papers that I have hard copies of somewhere
in a pile are:
Siegel, A. F. 1981. Geometric data analysis: An interactive graphics
program for shape comparison. In: Modern Data Analysis, R. L. Launer
and A. F. Siegel eds. Academic Press 103-122.
Siegel, A. F., and R. H. Benson. 1982. A robust comparison of biological
shapes. Biometrics 38:341-350.
Though these papers are rarely discussed (and perhaps for some good
reasons), they are the papers that attracted my early interest. They
had actual fortran(?) code in them that allowed me to get going with the
earliest of microcomputers that I used, the Apple 2+ and 2e. The 1982
one also introduced to me 'robust fit' which was an interesting
algorithm that focused on the best X% fit points between two sets which
then allowed interspecies differences to be focused on or developmental
series such as chimp development of the snout where the central core of
the skull are conserved and the snout landmarks are automatically not
used in the fit landmarks since they were changing so rapidly. The core
of unchanging landmarks form the basis of aligning the conserved
structure for looking at the change in the excluded landmarks. These
are historically interesting concepts that new landmark analysis readers
should perhaps know exist. Perhaps they are better represented that I
think. I look forward to your historical perspective.
Joe
On Aug 2, 2011, at 10:47 AM, morphmet wrote:
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Subject: history of geometric morphometrics
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 09:51:23 -0400
From: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Dear All,
I am about to write a chapter on geometric morphometrics for an
encyclopedia.
If you know papers on the history of geometric morphometrics and its
relationships with methods developed in other fields (image analysis and
computer science, for instance), I would greatly appreciate if you could
let me know the references or have the pdf.
I know a few papers on this but I am sure there are more and especially
if they've been published in books I may not have heard about and will
find it hard to get them.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Cheers
Andrea
PS
Reports from meetings (in particular the earliest ones) might also be
interesting.
Dr. Andrea Cardini Researcher / Lecturer in Animal Biology Dipartimento
di Biologia, Universitá di Modena, via Campi 213, 41100, Modena, Italy
tel: 0039 059 2055526 ; fax: 0039 059 2055548 Honorary Fellow Functional
Morphology and Evolution Unit, Hull York Medical School University of
Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK University of York, Heslington,
York YO10 5DD, UK Adjunct Associate Professor Centre for Forensic
Science , The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway,
Crawley WA 6009, Australia E-mail address: [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected] Webpage:
http://sites.google.com/site/hymsfme/drandreacardini Datasets:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/cerco_lt_2007/overview.cfm#metadata
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