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Hah! or not Hah!, that is the question.

I may or may not have found a way to consistently and quickly measure both the diameter of hand-spun yarns and their thickness variance. With no highly specialised tools for textile analysis.

Actually, with very few tools at all.

I will know whether I can go "Hah!" in joy about that once I have bent my mind around the working functions of one or a few picture analysis programmes... and then I'll tell you all about it.
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Phiala (website) on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 12:09

I don't know if you want suggestions, but for measuring things on digital images, the free software ImageJ (created for the National Institutes of Health in the US, thus a government product and free) is very good, and I've used it a lot for similar projects. None with yarn, though.

I don't know if you want suggestions, but for measuring things on digital images, the free software ImageJ (created for the National Institutes of Health in the US, thus a government product and free) is very good, and I've used it a lot for similar projects. None with yarn, though.
a stitch in time (website) on Thursday, 15 December 2011 07:42

Phiala, suggestions are always welcome! And ImageJ is what I am using for my testing-of-this-idea.

Phiala, suggestions are always welcome! And ImageJ is what I am using for my testing-of-this-idea.
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