New files now available: Software: http://morphlab.sc.fsu.edu/software/index.html gpsa: http://morphlab.sc.fsu.edu/software/gpsa/index.html
Thinned data files are only about 20MB versus nearly 275MB for original versions. Software is only about 3MB. User's guide only four pages. -ds 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 morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
