erosionAny

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Morphological Erosion of Windows

Compute the morphological erosion of one spatial window by another.

Keywords
spatial, math
Usage
erosionAny(A, B)A %(-)% B
Arguments
A,B

Windows (objects of class "owin").

Details

The operator A %(-)% B and function erosionAny(A,B) are synonymous: they both compute the morphological erosion of the window A by the window B.

The morphological erosion $A \ominus B$ of region $A$ by region $B$ is the spatial region consisting of all vectors $z$ such that, when $B$ is shifted by the vector $z$, the result is a subset of $A$.

Equivalently $$A \ominus B = ((A^c \oplus (-B))^c$$ where $\oplus$ is the Minkowski sum, $A^c$ denotes the set complement, and $(-B)$ is the reflection of $B$ through the origin, consisting of all vectors $-b$ where $b$ is a point in $B$.

If B is a disc of radius r, then erosionAny(A, B) is equivalent to erosion(A, r). See erosion.

The algorithm currently computes the result as a polygonal window using the polyclip library. It will be quite slow if applied to binary mask windows.

Value

Another window (object of class "owin").

erosion, MinkowskiSum

• erosionAny
• %(-)%
Examples
# NOT RUN {
B <- square(c(-0.1, 0.1))
RminusB <- letterR %(-)% B
FR <- grow.rectangle(Frame(letterR), 0.3)
plot(FR, main="", type="n")