If you only remove the lines with lines 'Points=' and 'Curves=' from a tps file then you no longer have a valid tps. To make the coordinates be treated as landmarks then you need to also insert a line with 'LM=' before the coordinate values and you have to place the correct number of points after the '=' sign.
If you do this by hand then you do not need to use the tpsUtil software because it performs the operations described above that you have done by hand. tpsUtil does nothing fancy - it just does these simple editing tasks more automatically. ---------------------- F. James Rohlf New email: [email protected] Distinguished Professor, Emeritus. Dept. of Ecol. & Evol. & Research Professor. Dept. of Anthropology Stony Brook University 11794-4364 The much revised 4th editions of Biometry and Statistical Tables are now available: http://www.whfreeman.com/Catalog/product/biometry-fourthedition-sokal http://www.whfreeman.com/Catalog/product/statisticaltables-fourthedition-rohlf Please consider the environment before printing this email -----Original Message----- From: 'MrMupped223' via MORPHMET [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 9:40 AM To: MORPHMET <[email protected]> Subject: [MORPHMET] Append tps Curve to Landmarks Hi, I have a similar problem like a girl who wrote asked a question on this site in 2012. I coppied her Email because my written english isn't the best. "I just started to use the tps suite and I'm having problems with sliding 2D semilandmarks. I have digitised curves in tpsDig with the curve tool and then resampled them to get an equal number of points for each individual." I then removed the control lines 'Ponints=' and 'Curves='. "As I understand it, I then need to turn the points into landmarks (appending) and then create a slider file to slide them in tpsUtil. The bit I'm stuck with is'appending tps curve to landmarks' in tpsUtil. I enter the file name in 'input' and chose a file name for 'output', but when I press 'create', I just get the error message:" This is my error massege: '435.00000' is not a valid floating point value Bad decimal character in coordinates?.' I get the same error for tps files with and without removed control lines. I hope someone has an idea why this Problem shows up and can help me. Thanks Jan -- 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]. -- 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].
