26 questions linked to/from Character edge finding
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### Why this kind of edge detect code gives different outputs with Mathematica 9.0, 10.4 and 11.2 [closed]

I have often noticed that examples of the past when done in newer versions of Mathematica generate inconsistent results. A prime example related to the following post (Character edge finding): ...
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### Find path through a set of Coordinates

I have a set of coordinates that I need a robot to draw, thus it must take the shortest path along these coordinates. Plotting them looks like this: ...
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### How can I adaptively simplify a curved shape?

For the purposes of creating a publication-quality plot marker I wish to convert a font glyph into a simplified Polygon where points are taken adaptively according ...
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### Make a glyph using the BezierCurve function

There are a lot of applications that you make a glyph from a scanned image. Mathematica does have fine tools to interpolate curves like the BezierCurve[] function. ...
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### Plot a alphabetic character in 2D

I was wondering how I can graphically plot an alphabetic character, for example D, in 2 dimension, using mathematica? I was using ListPlot with specific x and y values but it's not looking anything ...
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### How to make the digits of π go around in a spiral like this?

Here is a start. MapIndexed[Text[Reverse[First[RealDigits[Pi,10,252]]][[Tr@#2]],#]&, Table[{t Cos[t],t Sin[t]},{t,0,16Pi,0.2}]]//Graphics
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### Finding a function that fits the shape of an image

How can I find a function that fits the given shape of an image? Or instead extract a point set from the shape and then find an interpolating function fits the shape. An example image is attached.
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### Path construction using Nearest shows ill behavior?

I have a dataSet that I'm trying to sort choosing a starting point and going to its nearest neighbor, and then to its nearest neighbor and so on. To do so, I've ...
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### Generating visually pleasing circle packs

EDIT: (my conclusion and thank you note) I want to thank you all guys for this unexpected intellectual and artistic journey. Hope you had fun and enjoyed it the same as I did. I would like to ...
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### Generate a Random Polygon

Does some package exist with a function that takes a parameter $n$ and generates a random 2D $n$-sided simple polygon (convex or non-convex), possibly within a certain bounding box? It does not ...
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### Generating a list of contour pixels for a morphological component

I have a set of pixilated shapes, and after transforming each shape into a morphological component, I want to be able to return the coordinates for pixels that lie on the contour of the shape. More ...
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### Embedding text on an opaque plane in 3D [duplicate]

A simplified specification of what I am trying to accomplish would be to construct a cube each face with a different color and each face having a text label that can be seen only when viewing from the ...
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### rotating 3d text

Is it possible to create a 3D rotating text like this: animation here. Here is my try so far: ...
It is a very common problem that given a distance function $d(p_1,p_2)$ and a set of points pts, we need to construct a matrix ...