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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:32:35 -0400
From: andrea cardini <[email protected]>
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Clarissa, TPSDig has a tool for digitizing
outlines so that they're saved as outlines and
are read directly by the 'old Morpheus'. I've not
done this for year but it should still be there.
Another option (painful one) is to sharpen the
outlines manually in a software like photoshop
(by the way, there's a free full program of its
2005 version called psd CS2 or something like
that) and then detect them automatically in
TPSDig. This is what I did in an old paper of
mine in Acta Theriologica and also in a more
recent one in Lethaia (Ferretti A., Cardini A.,
et al.
<https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxZeFy3y3MEpZ2dubHVqMHROYm8/edit?usp=sharing>Rings
without a Lord? Enigmatic fossils from the lower
Palaeozoic of Bohemia and the Carnic Alps.
Lethaia, in press: DOI: 10.1111/let.12004: pdf at
https://sites.google.com/site/hymsfme/drandreacardini/publications).
Fig. 9 of the Lethaia paper will show you what I
mean. Bear in mind that we did not use a
conventional analysis of outlines in that paper
but a kind of extended semilandmarks approach for
structures with no landmarks at all. However, the
data collection is the same you'd do for outlines
with the exception that with outlines you may
need a common starting point unless you use
Haines and Crampton's method (Haines, A.J. &
Crampton, J.S. 2000: Improvements to the
method of Fourier shape analysis as applied in
morphometric studies. Palaeontology 43, 765 –
783) and the software by the authors or possibly its implementation in PAST.
For running the old Morpheus in recent computers
there's a number of tricks one may try. For
instance, using the command line version and a
few DOS commands, it might run in DOSBox. In
Linux it runs fine using Wine (works, I believe,
for both the command line and window version).
In Morpheus there used to be an help file,
although I am not sure if it gave information on
everything. I seem to remember also a doc
documentation but I may be wrong (could have been
for GRF-ND). Also, there might be a bunch of
'famous' secret commands for a few specific
operations. Dennis will tell you more.
Good luck
Andrea
At 05:49 28/03/2013, you wrote:
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>Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:59:57 -0400
>From: "House, Clarissa" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "House, Clarissa" <[email protected]>
>Subject:
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am looking for software that describes the
>shape of a closed outline. I have tried 'SHAPE'
>but the contrast between my specimen (beetle
>genitalia) and the background isn't good enough,
>so the program 'found' outlines that were of use
>or interest. The Alpha version of 'Morpheus' is
>useful but this will only run on my aging
>laptop. Also, the coordinate data (done in
>tpsDIG) had to be completely rearranged for
>Morpheus. I thought to use the Beta version of
>'Morpheus' but have been unable to find a users
>guide? Finally, I have got hold of a program;
>EFourier that was created by John Endler. Has
>anybody used this program and can give my any
>insights into is utility? Also is it possible to
>do Fourier analysis using the tps programs?
>
>Many thanks for any suggestions,
>Clarissa House
>
>Early Career Leverhulme Fellow,
>University of Exeter,
>College of Life & Environmental Sciences,
>Centre for Ecology and Conservation,
>Penryn, TR10 8BS, UK.
>
>
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Dr. Andrea Cardini
Researcher in Animal Biology
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche,
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, l.go S. Eufemia 19, 41121 Modena, Italy
Honorary Fellow
Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences
University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
Adjunct Associate Professor
Centre for Forensic Science , The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
E-mail address: [email protected], [email protected]
Webpage: http://sites.google.com/site/hymsfme/drandreacardini
Datasets:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/cerco_lt_2007/overview.cfm#metadata
Editorial board for:
Zoomorphology:
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/animal+sciences/journal/435
Journal of Zoological Systematics and
Evolutionary Research: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0947-5745&site=1
Hystrix, the Italian Journal of
Mammalogy: http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/
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