[MORPHMET] Tips for MicroScribe MX

[pbover72]

Hi,
I have a MicroScribe MX, which was bought about 10 years ago. I would like 
to get more precise tips for small bones, as the tips originally provided 
with the digitizer are those ones with a plastic ball at the end. Is there 
any way to get needle-like tips? Is there any provider I could contact?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Cheers
Pere

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[MORPHMET] Beginner in 3D GMM needs help. Relaxing and sliding commands in R

[Aurélien Lowie]

Hi everybody!

I just started to play with 3D GMM but I have some questions. Not sure I am 
doing the right things. 
I landmarked (anatomical+curves) the left side of six skulls and I would like 
to get my final matrix to do my analyses. I defined my landmarks and subsampled 
the landmarks on the curves. Then I patched the landmarks on all my specimens. 
So, for now, I have my 6 specimens with the landmarks at the right place on 
them. 

And here begin the troubles… I wanted to relax and slide the landmarks to 
minimize bending energy but I think the surfaces are too different because 
unless I use a stepsize of 0 (meaning that this command is useless I think) in 
relaxing and sliding commands, the landmarks do not fit the curves anymore.
 
#relaxLM(patched[,,i], rbind(atlas[["landmarks"]],atlas[["patch"]]), slidings, 
outlines = curv, surp = surface, sur.name = NULL, mesh = 
ply2mesh(paste("./ply/",meshlist[i],sep="")), tol = 1e-50, deselect = FALSE, 
inc.check = F, iterations = 50, fixRepro = TRUE, stepsize=0)

#slider3d(relaxedtemplate4, slidings, outlines = curv, surp = surface, sur.path 
= "./ply", sur.name = NULL, meshlist = paste("./ply/",meshlist,sep=""), ignore 
= NULL, sur.type = "ply", tol = 10e-50, deselect = FALSE, inc.check = FALSE, 
recursive = TRUE, iterations = 3, initproc = TRUE, pairedLM = 0, mc.cores = 4, 
fixRepro = TRUE, stepsize =0)

I tried to play with the tolerance and/or the bending=TRUE but nothing has 
changed. 

What could I change in these commands? Are these steps mandatory to analyse the 
shape? 

Any comment, advice and suggestion is more than welcome! 

Thanks a lot for your help.

Aurélien Lowie

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[MORPHMET] Help with Discriminant analysis on MorphoJ

[Elisa von Groll]

Hello. I have never posted here, but I searched about the problem that I am 
facing and I have not find a topic. So I am posting now.


I digitalized 4 LM and 160 semiLM (4 curves) with TPSDig to analyze the 
pronotum of six beetle species (>400 specimens) and transformed the semiLM in 
LM on TPSUtil. So I had 164 LM – I also did NOT aligned them - . I opened the 
file on MorphoJ and did PCA, CVA and discriminant analysis of the pairs. 
Everything went apparently ok. (→ I know that there are many problems because 
the exaggerated number of LM).
graphic: 

But now I know I had too many LM. So I deleted many of them on TPSUtil (I just 
took the TPS file of the 164 LM and deleted half of them, creating a new TPS 
file). Again, I did not aligned it. I did the same analysis on MorphoJ. The PCA 
and the CVA were ok, but the discriminant analysis did not work. I tried 
everything. 

graphic: 
 

So I gave up and did the sliders of the 164 LM, even knowing it wouldn’t be 
good for the subsequent analysis. So I used the TPSUtil  and did the sliders, 
following the manual. It took some time but I could save the aligned and scaled 
aligned data from TPSRelw. But again something went wrong 

graphic: 

Does someone know what might be the problem?

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Re: [MORPHMET] Dennis Slice

[Geeta R]

This is shocking and unbelievable news...very saddened to hear this. My
deepest condolences to morphometric and other friends and family.
R. Geeta
A1/7/1 (52), 22nd Cross Street, Besant Nagar, Chennai 600 090, India
Retired Professor, Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India;
Emerita, Ecology & Evolution, SUNY
, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Editor, Phytomorphology ,
India; Editorial Board, Journal of BioSciences
,
India; Editorial Board, Journal of Genetics
,
India; Editorial Board, American Journal of Botany
,
USA


On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 20:25, mitte...@univie.ac.at 
wrote:

>  Dear subscribers to morphmet,
>
>  With the deepest grief we must inform you of the sudden
>  death on June 13 of Prof. Dennis E. Slice,
>  holder of the fourth Rohlf Award for Excellence in Morphometrics
>  and tireless founder and moderator of this newsgroup,
>  who suffered a heart attack in his home town of
>  Tallahassee, Florida. Morphometrics will not be the same
>  without him.
>
> Jim Rohlf, Fred Bookstein, Paul O'Higgins,
>   Benedikt Hallgrimsson, June 15, 2019
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Re: [MORPHMET] Dennis Slice

[Mauro Cavalcanti]

What a tragic loss! I will ever miss his superb contributions to
morphometrics, as well as his nice sense of humour.

Em sáb, 15 de jun de 2019 às 11:55, mitte...@univie.ac.at <
mitte...@univie.ac.at> escreveu:

>  Dear subscribers to morphmet,
>
>  With the deepest grief we must inform you of the sudden
>  death on June 13 of Prof. Dennis E. Slice,
>  holder of the fourth Rohlf Award for Excellence in Morphometrics
>  and tireless founder and moderator of this newsgroup,
>  who suffered a heart attack in his home town of
>  Tallahassee, Florida. Morphometrics will not be the same
>  without him.
>
> Jim Rohlf, Fred Bookstein, Paul O'Higgins,
>   Benedikt Hallgrimsson, June 15, 2019
>
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Re: [MORPHMET] Dennis Slice

[Ariadne Schulz]

I never had the pleasure of meeting him. I knew him only through his work.
But his work was exceptional. This is a great loss. Condolences to those
closest to him.

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 3:55 PM mitte...@univie.ac.at 
wrote:

>  Dear subscribers to morphmet,
>
>  With the deepest grief we must inform you of the sudden
>  death on June 13 of Prof. Dennis E. Slice,
>  holder of the fourth Rohlf Award for Excellence in Morphometrics
>  and tireless founder and moderator of this newsgroup,
>  who suffered a heart attack in his home town of
>  Tallahassee, Florida. Morphometrics will not be the same
>  without him.
>
> Jim Rohlf, Fred Bookstein, Paul O'Higgins,
>   Benedikt Hallgrimsson, June 15, 2019
>
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Re: [MORPHMET] Dennis Slice

[Ann Ross]

I’m in utter shock and disbelief...no words except for deep sorrow...

Ann H. Ross, Ph.D., D-ABFA


> On Jun 15, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Neha Sharma  wrote:
> 
> What a loss! My condolences to the family and friends.
> 
>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2019, 20:25 mitte...@univie.ac.at,  
>> wrote:
>>  Dear subscribers to morphmet,
>> 
>>  With the deepest grief we must inform you of the sudden
>>  death on June 13 of Prof. Dennis E. Slice,
>>  holder of the fourth Rohlf Award for Excellence in Morphometrics
>>  and tireless founder and moderator of this newsgroup,
>>  who suffered a heart attack in his home town of
>>  Tallahassee, Florida. Morphometrics will not be the same
>>  without him.
>> 
>> Jim Rohlf, Fred Bookstein, Paul O'Higgins,
>>   Benedikt Hallgrimsson, June 15, 2019
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Re: [MORPHMET] Dennis Slice

[Neha Sharma]

What a loss! My condolences to the family and friends.

On Sat, 15 Jun 2019, 20:25 mitte...@univie.ac.at, 
wrote:

>  Dear subscribers to morphmet,
>
>  With the deepest grief we must inform you of the sudden
>  death on June 13 of Prof. Dennis E. Slice,
>  holder of the fourth Rohlf Award for Excellence in Morphometrics
>  and tireless founder and moderator of this newsgroup,
>  who suffered a heart attack in his home town of
>  Tallahassee, Florida. Morphometrics will not be the same
>  without him.
>
> Jim Rohlf, Fred Bookstein, Paul O'Higgins,
>   Benedikt Hallgrimsson, June 15, 2019
>
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Re: [MORPHMET] Dennis Slice

[Cole, Theodore M.]

What terrible news.  My sympathies to all his family, friends, colleagues, and 
students.

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On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 9:55 AM -0500, "mitte...@univie.ac.at" 
mailto:mitte...@univie.ac.at>> wrote:

 Dear subscribers to morphmet,

 With the deepest grief we must inform you of the sudden
 death on June 13 of Prof. Dennis E. Slice,
 holder of the fourth Rohlf Award for Excellence in Morphometrics
 and tireless founder and moderator of this newsgroup,
 who suffered a heart attack in his home town of
 Tallahassee, Florida. Morphometrics will not be the same
 without him.

Jim Rohlf, Fred Bookstein, Paul O'Higgins,
  Benedikt Hallgrimsson, June 15, 2019

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[MORPHMET] Dennis Slice

[mitte...@univie.ac.at]

 Dear subscribers to morphmet,

 With the deepest grief we must inform you of the sudden
 death on June 13 of Prof. Dennis E. Slice,
 holder of the fourth Rohlf Award for Excellence in Morphometrics
 and tireless founder and moderator of this newsgroup,
 who suffered a heart attack in his home town of
 Tallahassee, Florida. Morphometrics will not be the same
 without him.

Jim Rohlf, Fred Bookstein, Paul O'Higgins,
  Benedikt Hallgrimsson, June 15, 2019

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