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ScanSingleEdge3D

Locates the strongest change of surface height along a given path.

Syntax

void avl::ScanSingleEdge3D
(
	const avl::Surface& inSurface,
	const avl::ScanMap& inScanMap,
	const avl::EdgeScanParams3D& inEdgeScanParams,
	avl::Selection::Type inEdgeSelection,
	atl::Optional<const avl::LocalBlindness&> inLocalBlindness,
	atl::Optional<int> inMaxInterpolationLength,
	atl::Conditional<avl::SurfaceEdge1D>& outEdge,
	avl::Profile& diagHeightProfile,
	avl::Profile& diagResponseProfile
)

void ScanSingleEdge3D
(
	Surface inSurface,
	ScanMap inScanMap,
	EdgeScanParams3D inEdgeScanParams,
	Selection inEdgeSelection,
	LocalBlindness? inLocalBlindness,
	int? inMaxInterpolationLength,
	out SurfaceEdge1D? outEdge,
	out Profile diagHeightProfile,
	out Profile diagResponseProfile
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Range	Default	Description
inSurface	const Surface&			Input surface
inScanMap	const ScanMap&			Data precomputed with CreateSurfaceScanMap
inEdgeScanParams	const EdgeScanParams3D&			Parameters controlling the surface edge extraction process
inEdgeSelection	Selection::Type		Selection::Best	Selection mode of the resulting edge
inLocalBlindness	Optional<const LocalBlindness&>		NIL	Defines conditions in which weaker edges can be detected in the vicinity of stronger edges
inMaxInterpolationLength	Optional<int>	0 -	1	Maximal number of consecutive not existing profile points
outEdge	Conditional<SurfaceEdge1D>&			Found surface edge
diagHeightProfile	Profile&			Extracted surface height profile
diagResponseProfile	Profile&			Profile of the edge (derivative) operator response

Description

The operation scans the surface using inScanMap previously generated from a scan path and locates the strongest edge perpendicular to the path. If the strongest edge is weaker than inEdgeScanParams.minMagnitude then the outputs are set to NIL.

The operation is very similar to ScanSingleEdge from 1D Edge Detection category, but there are some substantial differences. One of these is the possibility of absence of information, because some surface points may not exist at all. To detect such edges, where solely change of existence matters, Valid/Invalid options of inEdgeScanParams.EdgeTransition can be used. Outside the surface domain (i.e. rectangle defined by input surface width, height, offsets and scales) there are no valid or invalid points, so no edge can be found in the direct vicinity of the domain border.

Because in the Valid/Invalid mode all edges have equal strength, if inEdgeSelection is set to Best, it will be implicitly substituted with First selection option.

Please note that when the input surface has unequal scales along X and Y axes and the scan path is not parallel to any of the axes, the results may be slightly less accurate because of uneven sampling along axes.

Hints

Define inEdgeScanParams.EdgeTransition to detect a particular edge type, and only that type.
If no edge is found, try decreasing inEdgeScanParams.MinMagnitude. Verify this with the values on the diagResponseProfile output.
If consecutive edges are closer than 6 pixels apart, change inEdgeScanParams.ProfileInterpolation to Quadratic3.

Remarks