If you are thinking about downloading the gpsa package from http://morphlab.sc.fsu.edu/software/index.html, you might want to wait a little while. I have tweaked the download in a couple of ways:
1) New gpsa jar package includes executable scripts (these were omitted from the initial packaging). No software changes. 2) Package split out into separate files for documentation, program, data. The original single archive was huge. 3) I have "touched" all of the original .ply files. Some gave errors loading into Meshlab. I just opened the files in jEdit and saved them. This seems to have cleared up whatever was wrong there. 4) I have created a "thinned" data set containing all of the original scans decimated to 100k faces. The originals were at max resolution (1-2 million faces/vertices) to stress the software and algorithm. The 100k-face versions are still quite detailed, and much more pleasant to use to get to know the program. I have made all of the above changes and provided a link to the web manager for uploading - I don't mess with the html (too many cooks...). I will announce when the new files are ready or you can check back periodically. On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 12:57:51 PM UTC-4, dslice wrote: > > I take this opportunity to call your attention to software packages > associated with several recent papers that are now available from the FSU > Morphlab website. All are cross-platform Java programs that should run on > Linux, OS X, and Windows with appropriate Java virtual machines. The web > site is undergoing extensive revision, but the software, at least, is now > available for download. > > Lab page: > http://morphlab.sc.fsu.edu/ > Software page: > http://morphlab.sc.fsu.edu/software/index.html > > > Here you will find the most recent version of *Morpheus et al.* (new > development underway) as well as... > > *forAge* - a new forensics program that one can use to estimate the age > of an individual from a scan of the pubic symphysis. This program > implements methods described in: > > Slice, Dennis E., and Bridget F. B. Algee-Hewitt. “Modeling Bone Surface > Morphology: A Fully Quantitative Method for Age-at-Death Estimation Using > the Pubic Symphysis.” Journal of Forensic Sciences, April 1, 2015, n/a-n/a. > doi:10.1111/1556-4029.12778. > > Stoyanova, Detelina, Bridget F.B. Algee-Hewitt, and Dennis E. Slice. “An > Enhanced Computational Method for Age-at-Death Estimation Based on the > Pubic Symphysis Using 3D Laser Scans and Thin Plate Splines.” American > Journal of Physical Anthropology 158, no. 3 (November 1, 2015): 431–40. > doi:10.1002/ajpa.22797. > > These methods/results may well be sex and population specific - we are > working on those issues, so keep that in mind. > > and... > > *GPSA* - software implementing a landmark-free method for the > superimposition of surfaces with associated distance metrics and > visualization published in PLOS ONE in March: > > Pomidor, Benjamin J., Jana Makedonska, and Dennis E. Slice. “A > Landmark-Free Method for Three-Dimensional Shape Analysis.” PLOS ONE 11, > no. 3 (March 8, 2016): e0150368. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150368. > > Direct link: > http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0150368 > > The GPSA method can be sensitive to initialization - e.g., the > initialization might get caught at a local minimum. Initialization is > automatic in the current release of the program, but future version will > allow more manual intervention to address this issue. > > As both forAge and GPSA implement new methods, you encouraged to give > these programs a try using the provided data sets, test them extensively on > appropriate data you might have at hand, but otherwise use them with > caution. > > Have fun! > > -ds > -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
