[SciPy-user] circumference in raster image

[Robert Cimrman]

Thank you Gary,

it's good to know the right keyword - my google searches were not 
successful but now I get lots of results :-)

cheers,
r.

Gary Ruben wrote:
> I recently sat in on a lecture on how to do this. In summary, there is 
> no best way to do it - it's an open research problem.
> Search for "Best Line Unbiased Estimators" to find out more.
> If you just walk around the discretised 8-connected circumference and 
> try to compute pi from it, it will converge to 8(sqrt(2)-1), which is 
> close to pi and comes from the sum of sides of an octagon enclosing the 
> circle (this makes sense because all the traversals can be ordered to 
> lie on this octagon), so you need to be smarter, unless that's an 
> acceptable uncertainty for your problem.
> 
> Zach's suggestion to use find_contours is probably a good one, depending 
> on how the contouring is done - certainly sounds like a promising approach,
> 
> Gary R.
> 
> Robert Cimrman wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Hoping that there are some raster image experts around: I need to 
>> compute an approximation of circumference of an object (with smooth 
>> boundary) represented as a filled area in a 2d array. Can scipy.ndimage 
>> deal with that?
>>
>> thanks,
>> r.
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