Allowing the subsection to be expressed as 'take x number of pixels off the edges'

[korinnem@…]

To batch run Duchamp on a large number of files, it would be useful to have a way of expressing that you want, say, 5 pixels off all edges (i.e. 10 all up off one side), so that when you are processing cubes of different sizes you can get rid of the edges more easily, and rerun Duchamp. At this stage, I can do an inital pass through of 40 cubes very easily, with the edges included, but it would be more tricky to figure out how to construct coding to set up the input files to include subsections when the cubes are different sizes. I would have to go through each input file and set the subsections individually, when I could use a blanket setting with sed.

[Matthew Whiting]

This is a good suggestion, and would be preferable to having to know the sizes of the cubes beforehand. It should be possible to implement, but I'll have to see if I can come up with a sensible way of doing it.

[Matthew Whiting]

This has been done. To remove, say, 5 pixels from all spatial edges, you can now specify the subsection as [5,5,*] -- so rather than giving x1:x2, one provides a single value, and this number of pixels is removed from the start and end of that axis.

The beta version of the code has this change (as at 25/1/07), and the next release version will incorporate it also.