Hello everybody,
First of all: thanks for the replies! It seems that our question concerning RW1 depicting a fixation effect has triggered a whole set of answers. I think that what we are observing can indeed be captured by the 'bendiness' Dr. DeWitt mentioned. Identifying the actual meaning of RW1 (is it indeed solely a fixation artefact?) in a set-up as proposed by Dr. DeWitt however won't be possible in our case. Our fish are actually on loan from a museum, so we can only work with the fixated specimens. Our fish appeared to have undergone a global bending in a dorsoventral direction, at least this it what RW1 depicts on the splines. So, in our case, I think that trying out the "unbend specimens" module in tpsUtil might be the way to go. Kristel Wautier Ghent University Department of Biology K.-L. Ledeganckstraat 35 9000 Ghent Belgium Tel.: +32 9 264 52 31 Fax: +32 9 264 53 44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~kwautier/VMDB/homepage.html == Replies will be sent to list. For more information see http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/morphmet.html.
