Correction to my original message: *My surfaces were not aligned to orthogonal planes when I collected the data* On Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 4:21:07 PM UTC-5 Jordan Guerra wrote:
> Dear all, > > Happy new year to everyone! I'm looking for some advice on how to > best/efficiently calculate the area of an articular surface using R. > > I have 3D landmark data (collected in Amira) that I want to use to > calculate the area of different articular surfaces. I want my surfaces were > not aligned to orthogonal planes when I collected the data > > What I've tried so far is to re-align the landmarks of the surfaces I'm > interested to one of the orthogonal planes (using 3 points) and then > removing one of the dimensions so that I have a 2D polygon that I can use > Gauss's area formula. However, because I am only using 3 points to > determine the 'new' orthogonal plane, I have doubts that this is the best > way to do this since not all of other landmarks fall on this plane. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this better or is there an > R-package that does this already? > > All the best, > Jordan > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Morphmet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/86c45ae8-a681-4cb8-bab4-4b904e09a3a1n%40googlegroups.com.
