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Re: contour fill



Craig Markwardt (craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu) writes:

> You wondered why a basic threshold wouldn't work.  I think his reply
> was that he wanted to select a *particular* contour.  When there are
> several peaks in the data then a simple threshold will not work.  As I
> pointed out the hardest part in the algorithm I gave is selecting the
> right contour.  [And I gave a posible heuristic to decide.]

Oh, I liked your answer well enough. (I always do.)
But I'm leery of the right answer to the wrong
question. I guess that translates to Why?.

How's it going on those other IDL questions I posed? :-)

Cheers,

David

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