Dear Kamila, I guess you are referring to structures with object symmetry (e.g., human skulls or flowers)? If yes, this is my approach (it might be a bit tedious, but works well)
1. After you treated your data (transformed copies with appropriate relabelling) and applied a Generalized Procrustes Analysis to it, the consensus (mean shape) will be perfectly symmetric 2. Have a look to that consensus and see if you can find a picture in your dataset that looks like the consensus or any other picture that represents somehow the average variation 3. Take this picture and draw an outline of the unit that generates the full symmetry of the object (e.g. left side of a human skull) using illustrator or similar programs, then generate copies of this unit to which you apply the symmetry transformations needed to reconstruct the full object. For instance, the left side of a human skull will be first drawn, then a copy of it is created to which you apply a reflection. You will obtain a right side. 4. Connect all these transformed copies to reconstruct the full outline of the object 5. Export/Save the outline of the object as a format image that is understandable by TPSDig2 (e.g. tiff, jpeg, etc). 6. Create a .TPS file associated with the exported image of the outline using TPSUtil 7. Open this .TPS file with TPSDig2 8. Select the yellow pencil and draw an outline on top of the image (this image should be a perfectly symmetric one if you assembled it properly in step 3 & 4) 9. Save the data generated by TPSDig2 (save as, overwrite Yes) 10. Edit this .TPS file that contains the coordinates of the outline generated by TPSDig2 with notepad or any other text editor so that you can import it in MorphoJ (see the link you posted) An alternative would be after Step 4 where you could directly save the coordinates of your object generated by Illustrator or else using a script. Please see some links below. https://forums.adobe.com/message/4388468#4388468%234388468%234388468 https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1295186?start=0&tstart=0 http://disturbmedia.com/blog/post/illustrator-script-save-selection-coordinates/ I hope this helps. What are you working on, by the way? Yoland On Friday, October 3, 2014 11:48:52 PM UTC+3, Kamila Topolska wrote: > > Hi Michalea, > Thank you for your answer, but I wasn't trying to make a wireframe graph. > I'd like to make something like that: > http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoJ_guide/frameset.htm?user_interface/graphics.htm > > and I don't know is it possible for symetric objects? > > Best wishes, > Kamila > > W dniu środa, 1 października 2014 12:07:01 UTC+2 użytkownik Kamila > Topolska napisał: >> >> Hi, >> I was wondering if it's possible to create outline drawing for symmetric >> structure in MorphoJ? >> >> Thank you, >> Kamila Topolska >> >> -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
