grainBoundary.calcMeanDirection edit page

compute a smoothed direction that ignores staircasing

Description

This is very similar to direction with the only difference that it takes the direction across 2*n+1 segments instead of across a single one, which averages out the staircasing of a pixel grid. The window runs along the chain and is clamped at its ends, so it never smears across a junction.

Syntax

dir = calcMeanDirection(gB)
dir = calcMeanDirection(gB,2)

Input

gB grainBoundary
n number of neighboring segments considered on each side

Output

dir vector3d

See also

grainBoundary.grainBoundary grainBoundary.grainBoundary

Citing this page. This page is part of the documentation of MTEX, a free and open source MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and modeling crystallographic textures. It was written by The MTEX Developers and is published at https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/grainBoundary.calcMeanDirection.html. If you use MTEX, or reuse text or figures from this page, in your research, please cite

F. Bachmann, R. Hielscher, H. Schaeben: Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox, Solid State Phenomena 160 (2010), 63-68. 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63

BibTeX 
@article{bachmann2010mtex,
  author  = {F. Bachmann and R. Hielscher and H. Schaeben},
  title   = {Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox},
  journal = {Solid State Phenomena},
  volume  = {160},
  pages   = {63-68},
  year    = {2010},
  doi     = {10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63}
}

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