Control and organize the display, functioning, and storage of TPS files by applying the random scrambling scenarios in order to minimize bias in digitizing landmark locations, restoring the original order for repeated statistical analysis, creating empty files and adding keywords, etc.
tpsUtil is a utility program designed to help when working with tps files. It can randomly scramble the order of specimens to reduce bias in landmark location digitization, restore the original order, create an empty TPS file from an image file directory, add keywords and values to the TPS file variables field, combine TPS files into one, delete/reorder landmarks, remove outlines from a TPS file, and convert TPS and NTS files to NTS, M, or CSV formats. It can also split an NTS file into multiple matrices.tpsUtil is an utility program useful when working with tps files. At present it can: randomly scramble the order of specimens in a tps file to minimize bias in digitizing landmark locations, restore the original order (e.g., before statistical analyses are performed), create an empty TPS file from a directory with image files, add keywords and values to the variables field of a TPS file, combine TPS files into a single TPS file, delete/reorder landmarks, remove outlines from a TPS file, and convert TPS and NTS files to NTS, M, or CSV files. It can also split an NTS file into several matrices. Graphic editors are included for drawing link and "sliders" files. Unbending a deformed specimen. Converting outline and curves points to landmarks. Computes areas enclosed by landmarks..
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