vexing question re:Morphologika

2012-09-17 Thread morphmet_moderator 
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"Lewis, Dr. Donald"  -  Date: Mon, 17
Sep 2012 11:03:49 -0400  From: "Lewis, Dr. Donald"
  Reply-To: "Lewis, Dr. Donald"
  Subject: vexing question re:Morphologika  
   To: morphmet@morphometrics.org


Friends,

I have finally found time to spend the
better part of the day with the MicroScribe G2, the MS utility software,
Morphologika, and have been somewhat successful.

I have created an Excel file of 34 data
points/locations on a skull, copied and pasted it to Notepad, and, following
Will's excellent video (now watched a dozen times, today minute-by-minute) typed
in the correct commands. 

What was on my notepad screen was exactly
like his, to the letter.

Opening Morphologika, I brought in the
file, watching his every move. Indeed, that command and data string were along
the right side of the Morphologika window, just like his. When I hit
"OK",

however, instead of getting a cluster of
data points, I got one point only, in the center of a black field, as if it were
displaying the centroid. When I enlarged that black screen, I just got a bunch
of colored lights.

I have rechecked my work and the settings
so many times now that I could 

miss something simple because I have
become numbed to it, thus my writing to you.

I have looked in the Morphological help
menu to no avail. It clearly is not the machine, it is my "pilot error".

If you can think of a possible solution,
please share it. If not, please forward this query to anyone you think may have
the answer, as I can't proceed to wireframes, GOA, PCA and the like before I
figure this out.

I bet it is something amazingly simple, I
am just too dense to see it.

Thanks for reading this babble.

Don Lewis


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tpsTri update

2012-09-17 Thread morphmet_moderator 
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James Rohlf"  -  Date: Sun, 16 Sep
2012 22:55:32 -0400  From: "F. James Rohlf"
  Reply-To: ro...@life.bio.sunysb.edu
 Subject: tpsTri update  To: morphmet@morphometrics.orgVersion 1.26 of
tpsTri has just been uploaded to the http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph
server.  A relatively small update this time. You may find it useful for
experimenting with how morphometric methods treat data with just 3
landmarks. --F. 
James Rohlf, John S. Toll Professor, Stony Brook
UniversityThe much revised 4th editions of
Biometry and Statistical Tables are now available:http://www.whfreeman.com/Catalog/product/biometry-fourthedition-sokalhttp://www.whfreeman.com/Catalog/product/statisticaltables-fourthedition-rohlfP Please consider the environment before printing this email
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Homoplasy index questiom

2012-09-17 Thread morphmet_moderator 
- Forwarded message from Chong
Ong  -  Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 22:25:33
-0400  From: Chong Ong   Reply-To: Chong
Ong   Subject: Homoplasy index questiom 
To: morphmet@morphometrics.org Hi
everyone,My name is Ren,
 and I am an honours student at
the Australian National University. As part of my honours project, I am
looking at changes in leaf shape in the Australian
Pelargonium in a phylogenetic context. I have mapped a PCA on the
covariance matrix of my leaf Procrustes coordinates onto a phylogeny on
MorphoJ, and currently I am trying to look at extent of homoplasy
between taxa. I understand that the "Map onto phylogeny" function only
detects a presence of phylogenetic signal in shape data, while analysing
 the extent of homoplasy within the group requires an additional
calculation of a homoplasy index instead. I have been trying to repeat
the methods that were
described in Klingenberg & Gidasewski (2010) to calculate this
homoplasy index, but I'm having a bit
of trouble figuring it out.I understand that firstly I need to
measure the minimum amount of change i.e. the shortest tree possible
that connects my data points using Klingenberg's FindSteinerTree program. My
first
 question is, what exactly are these data points that I need to put in?
Are they the values for PC1 and PC2 of each data point representing the
mean shape of each taxon?My second question was regarding the
maximal amount of change. What do I have to do on MorphoJ to get the sum
 of squared distances of each taxon from the overall mean shape in order to
calculate the star phylogeny?I have only started using MorphoJ recently,
and any advice would be greatly appreciated! My email address is
u4463...@anu.edu.auCheers.Ren


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Vexing question from a newbie

2012-09-17 Thread morphmet_moderator 

- Forwarded message from "Lewis, Dr. Donald"  -

 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:18:26 -0400
  From: "Lewis, Dr. Donald" 
  Reply-To: "Lewis, Dr. Donald" 
  Subject: Vexing question from a newbie 
  To: morphmet@morphometrics.org

Does anyone know of someone who would be willing to take phone call concerning 
my initial use of "Morphologika" ? I am stumped at one stage, unable to find 
the answer, and need to get on with it. A phone call can, at times, do in two 
minutes what an hour of emailing or posting cannot. 
Thanks for your kind consideration 
Don Lewis MD
NIU Anthro
UI(Chi) Med

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On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:11 AM, "morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org" 
 wrote:

> 
> - Forwarded message from "McKeown, Ashley"  -
> 
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:29:15 -0400
>  From: "McKeown, Ashley" 
>  Reply-To: "McKeown, Ashley" 
>  Subject: RE: Asking about a 3D workshop
>  To: "morphmet@morphometrics.org" 
> 
> Hi,
> Last year there was an EVAN Toolbox workshop before the AAPA meetings in 
> April (next meetings April 2013 in Knoxville, TN) - not sure if there will be 
> another workshop or if it will in-depth enough for your purposes. 
> 
> Here is a link to what was offered last year: 
> http://www.physanth.org/annual-meeting/news/evan-toolbox-et-training-day. 
> 
> best,
> Ashley
> 
> Ashley H. McKeown, PhD
> 
> Associate Professor
> 
> Department of Anthropology
> 
> University of Montana
> 
> Missoula, Montana 59812
> 
> ashley.mcke...@umontana.edu
> 
> 
> From: morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org 
> [morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:51 PM
> To: morphmet@morphometrics.org
> Subject: Asking about a 3D workshop
> 
> - Forwarded message from Carlos Fabian Morantes Ariza -
> 
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:39:41 -0400
> From: Carlos Fabian Morantes Ariza
> Reply-To: Carlos Fabian Morantes Ariza
> Subject: Asking about a 3D workshop
> To: morphmet@morphometrics.org
> 
> Dear morphometricians,
> 
> My advisor and I are wondering if there is any 3D geometric morphometrics 
> workshop coming on first semester 2013 either in Europe or North America. I 
> will thank any kind of information. 
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Carlos Fabian Morantes Ariza
> Biology Department
> National University of Colombia
> 
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