Contour Volume project definition
Public web page of
ContourVolume
Overview
Write an application program that calculates the volume enclosed by a set of
contours. Contours are expected to be roughly parallel.
Restrictions, Exclusions, Limitations
- restriction one
- restriction two
People Affected
| Person | Initials | Role | Notes |
|---|
| Bae Cheol Shin | BC | Application designer and programmer | |
| Craig Schwartz | CS | project supervisor | |
| Roger Woods | RW | project sponsor | |
Version
1.0
Requirements
- Java 1.5 is used to implement this reader
- An application program that applies the FDR algorithm to the attributes of a
Shape. These attributes are interpreted as a set of statistical p-values.
- the program will be based on the ContourVolume CVS project
- When run with multiple input files, the volume of each file will be printed on a separate line.
Command line Options
Requirements Change Procedure
- Changes to be mutually agreed upon by __ and __.
- Changes and their date will be entered in a 'requirements change' list.
Requirements Changes
Products
Approach
Each contour is considered to define a closed, (roughly) planar polygon.
The area of each contour is found. These area are used to approximate the volume
between adjacent contours by use of [[][Trapeziod]] apporximation, or the [[][Frustrum]]] approximation.
Notes
The existing code gives different volumes for curves (Ucf) file resampled using the
InterpolateContour program. This should not happen. On Inirie, the program
ucfmeasure -volume file.ucf
will measure the volume. Presently, the redigitized volumes (see
InterpolateContour)
have very different values. this is an error.
Eventually, other calculations may be added, so that several measurements may be made for each input file.
Examples of these would be area calculations, fractal dimension, and so forth.
See ucfmeasure.
Currently two approximations to the volume bounded by the contours are supporte: Trapezoid and Frustrum.
The Trapezoid method finds the volume of the trapezoid defined by two adjacent contour (assuming the
contours are nearly flat). The frustrum uses the volume of the frustrum of a cone to approximate the volume.
Lessons Learned
(filled out after the post-project review)
