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Re: Minimum Feret Diameter

Posted by dscho on Jan 16, 2009; 10:50pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Minimum-Feret-Diameter-tp3694020p3694021.html

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, alisona5 wrote:

> I need to measure the minimal feret diameter :the minimum distance of
> parallel tangents at opposing borders.  This is the accepted parameter
> in my field and I cannot use any other measurements.  Does anyone have a
> plugin or way to go about measuring this?

Would this help?

        http://doube.org/plugins.html#rotcal

Just download Rotating_Calipers.java into your plugins/ folder and run it
with Plugins>Compile And Run...

<shameless-plug>
        If you see the message "This JVM does not include the javac
        compiler. [...]", you might want to try Fiji:
        http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/
</shameless-plug>

Ciao,
Dscho