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From: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: Cluster Analysis and raster graphics
Message-ID: <193@geowhiz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 14:47:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 14:47:19 1985
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In article <430@gitpyr.UUCP> roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi) writes:
>Does anyone know of a procedure (or if it is even possible) for
>examining a dot-mapped character and representing it as a sequence
>of pen strokes?  Perhaps some form of cluster analysis....

  It's not elegant, but one way is to think of the dot-mapped
characters as a two dimensional array of ones and zeros.  You
can then use a contour mapping (i.e. border followng) algorithm
on the array.
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