At 10:19 AM 11/27/2007, you wrote:
...
Back at my first computer job, where Steve Gray was a mentor, we had a
special purpose computer called a BIP which did this quad counting as a
basic operation. ...
i also used to work with steve and dave. steve replied to a post i
just sent him with:
On 27/11/2007, Dave Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I'm the main party responsible for propagating this technique
on the web. The scanned pages were scanned by me. I use this Euler
technique in my Lines of Action programs, where it is much more directly
applicable to detecting a won
Hi Dave,
Yes, I eventually figured out how to do the quad counting on scan
lines. You only need 2 quad patterns when using scan lines of the
image and for small boards you can do almost everything with a single
loop and a lookup table.
Steve Gray's article was helpful to me and I also found
Dave Dyer wrote:
... and I also found A Novel
Morphological Operator to Calculate Euler Number by Zhao Zhang, Randy
H. Moss and William V. Stoecker. Did you scan that article too?
That one is news to me.
The version of that paper I found was also scanned.It's only 3 pages
