Just a couple of reflections, not guaranteed to be useful: 1. I have some public domain plants here http://marble.sru.edu/~ddailey/plantdominos.html Some of you might find the heuristic domino tilings sort of fun. 2. The program NIH Image from the National Institute of Health (USA) used to have methods built into it for counting things (like cells); I haven't used it for a dozen years, but I know it is still around and probably public domain (US Govt. is prohibited by law from owning copyrights in its own work) 3. If you were to take line drawings such as in (1 above) and then autotrace to convert to vectors -- there are a variety of autotracing routines built into the SVG program Inkscape -- then you might get part of the way to where you want to be.
Cheers, David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shyamal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <svg-developers@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:15 AM Subject: [svg-developers] RFI: SVG search > Hi folks, > > I am new to the list and perhaps this has already been discussed here > before although I havent found anything in teh archives. > > I would essentially like to build a collection of carefully created > SVG sketches of biological objects which would for instance have > labeling of various paths with descriptive names. > > I would then like to make a search engine (or use XML Xpath queries or > suchlike) that goes through the search SVG files and pick SVGs > according to criteria which could include shape, name, colour and > geometric/topologic criteria such as > - find all SVG's having 6 'spot' objects ON a 'wing' object which has > colour green. > > I imagine that some API in this direction would already be in > development, perhaps in the GIS applications area, but I am unable to > find any such references. > > Would welcome suggestions and pointers to information. > > thanks and best wishes > Shyamal > http://www.geocities.com/muscicapa/ > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > membership" > ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
