morphomap (version 1.5)

morphomapSegm: morphomapSegm

Description

Separate a mesh from its visible and not visible components by using CA-LSE method

Usage

morphomapSegm(mesh, views = 30, param1 = 4, num.cores = NULL)

Value

external mesh3d of the visible facets from the points of view

internal mesh3d of the not visible facets from the points of view

Arguments

mesh

object of class mesh3d

views

numeric: number of points of view

param1

numeric: first parameter for spherical flipping (usually ranged between 3 and 4)

num.cores

numeric: number of cores

Author

Antonio Profico, Luca Bondioli, Pasquale Raia, Paul O'Higgins, Damiano Marchi

Details

The result could be affected by the value set in the param1 argument. Before running morphomapCore please the periosteal and endosteal surfaces.

References

Profico A., Schlager S., Valoriani V., Buzi C., Melchionna M., Veneziano A., Raia P., Moggi-Cecchi J. and Manzi G., 2018. Reproducing the internal and external anatomy of fossil bones: Two new automatic digital tools. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166(4): 979-986.

Examples

if(interactive()){
#automatic separation of external and medullar femur components
require(rgl)
data(HomFem38023)
meshes<-morphomapSegm(HomFem38023,param1=4)
perMesh<-meshes$external
endMesh<-meshes$internal
rgl::open3d()
rgl::wire3d(perMesh,col="grey")
rgl::wire3d(endMesh,col="red")
}