Re: Edit>Selection>Line to Area produces change in area of freehand line?

Posted by dscho on Jul 15, 2010; 4:23pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Edit-Selection-Line-to-Area-produces-change-in-area-of-freehand-line-tp3687606p3687607.html

Hi,

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Bill Christens-Barry wrote:

> Playing with the Edit>Selection>Line to Area command that is new in
> v1.44d, I found that measurements of an arbitrary freehand line (1 pixel
> in width) gave different areas before and after use of the new command:
>
> [...]

Note that the "area" of a 1-pixel-wide line is an ill-defined term to
begin with. I would not put too much importance on that. Much more
important is the case where you have a line with a larger width, as the
area of such an entity really has some geometrical meaning.

Hth,
Johannes