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The Automated Wing Measurement system.

1. Knock out fly and suck the wing into the narrow slit of the wing grabber:

WingGrabber.gif

2. Two points at the base of the wing are marked by the handler

3. Semi-automated software fits series of clamped quadratic B-splines:

SplineControlPoints.jpg

4. The landmarks are placed on the intersections between the splines or at the intersection between the spline and the imaginary line at the base of the wing:

LandMarks.jpg

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WingGrabber.gif manage 34.5 K 16 Oct 2008 - 12:37 KimvanderLinde  
EndResult.jpg manage 14.9 K 16 Oct 2008 - 12:43 KimvanderLinde  
SplineControlPoints.jpg manage 27.5 K 16 Oct 2008 - 12:44 KimvanderLinde  
LandMarks.jpg manage 70.4 K 16 Oct 2008 - 12:44 KimvanderLinde