Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-16-2009
Department
College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
Abstract
Color analysis of spalted wood surfaces requires a non-subjective, repeatable method for determining percent of pigmentation on the wood surface. Previously published methods used human visual perception with a square grid overlay to determine the percent of surface pigmentation. Our new method uses Scion Image©, a graphical software program used for grayscale and color analysis, to separate fungal pigments from the wood background. These human interface processes render the wood block into HSV (hue, saturation, value, within the RGB color space), allowing subtle and drastic color changes to be visualized, selected and analyzed by the software. Analysis with Scion Image© allows for a faster, less subjective, and easily repeatable procedure that is superior to simple human visual perception.
Publication Title
Materials
Recommended Citation
Robinson, S.,
Laks, P.,
&
Turnquist, E. J.
(2009).
A method for digital color analysis of spalted wood using scion image software.
Materials,
2(1), 62-75.
http://doi.org/10.3390/ma2010062
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/1976
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© 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Publisher’s version of record: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma2010062