9.47. Compute Surface Features

Group (Subgroup)

Generic (Spatial)

Description

This Filter determines whether a Feature touches an outer surface of the sample. This is accomplished by simply querying the Feature owners of the Cells that sit at either . Any Feature that owns one of those Cells is said to touch an outer surface and all other Features are said to not touch an outer surface of the sample.

This Filter determines whether a Feature touches an outer Surface of the sample volume. A Feature is considered touching the Surface of the sample if either of the following conditions are met:

  • Any cell location is xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, zmin or zmax

  • Any cell has Feature ID = 0 as a neighbor.

The output of this filter is a Feature level array of booleans where 0=Interior/Not touching and 1=Surface/Touching.

WARNING - Feature ID=0 Voxels

If there are voxels within the volume that have Feature ID=0 then any feature touching those voxels will be considered a Surface feature.

WARNING - Fixed bugs

The version of this filter in legacy DREAM3D-NX (version 6.x) had two bugs: one that indexed into neighboring features incorrectly DREAM3D-NX repo issue #988, and another that incorrectly labeled feature 0 as a surface feature when feature 0 exists in the feature ids array DREAM3D-NX repo issue #989. Both of these bugs have been fixed in this new version.

2D Image Geometry

If the structure/data is actually 2D, then the dimension that is planar is not considered and only the Features touching the edges are considered surface Features.

Example Output

ComputeSurfaceFeatures_Cylinder

ComputeSurfaceFeatures_Square

Example showing features touching Feature ID=0 (Black voxels) “Mark Feature 0 Neighbors” is ON

Example showing features touching the outer surface of the bounding box

Input Parameter(s)

Parameter Name

Parameter Type

Parameter Notes

Description

Mark Feature 0 Neighbors

Bool

Marks features that are neighbors with feature 0. If this option is off, only features that reside on the edge of the geometry will be marked.

Input Cell Data

Parameter Name

Parameter Type

Parameter Notes

Description

Feature Geometry

Geometry Selection

Image

The geometry in which to find surface features

Cell Feature Ids

Array Selection

Allowed Types: int32 Comp. Shape: 1

Specifies to which feature each cell belongs.

Input Cell Feature Data

Parameter Name

Parameter Type

Parameter Notes

Description

Feature Attribute Matrix

AttributeMatrixSelection

The path to the cell feature attribute matrix associated with the input feature ids array

Output Feature Data

Parameter Name

Parameter Type

Parameter Notes

Description

Surface Features

DataObjectName

The created surface features array. Flag of 1 if Feature touches an outer surface or of 0 if it does not

Example Pipelines

  • (06) SmallIN100 Synthetic

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