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Multiple Valued Grid Format for Describing 3d Surfaces

Summary

Values of the depth at regular locations are stored as surfaces in DDS supported formats. If the surfaces are multiple valued, multiple surfaces are stored. Each surface has a matching mask. If the mask has value zero, then the surface is not defined at that grid location. The first surface is followed by the first mask in the dds structure. And the n'th surface is followed by the n'th mask. Programs lndmrk2grid, landmark2surf, grid2lndmrk, grid2PtNorms, and PtNorms2grid create or use this data structure.

grid Format Description

A regular grid consists of a regular array of nx by ny points. Each point, (i,j), has a location (x,y) given by x= x0 +(i-1)*dx and y= y0 +(j-1)*dy where the value of x0 is set by the dds constructs in the dds dictionary. Setting axis= x y origin.x=10 origin.y=20 delta.x=82 delta.y=96 specifies that the mapping between (i,j) and (x,y) is x=10+(i-1)*82 and y=20+(j-1)*96. Landmark data may have an offset and increment associated with the line index and depth index. In this case a mapping between the grid indices and the landmark indices can be established using the dds variables axis=x y step.x= 2 step.y= 3 base.x=10 base.y=200 This establishes the mapping i = (di-base.x)/step.x j = (li-base.y)/step.y Names may be associated with each surface using the variables name_1=name_of_the_first_surface name_2= ...

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