[R] fractal dimension of an image

[Spencer Graves]

      From "www.r-project.org" -> search -> "R site search" -> "fractal 
dimension", I got 17 hits, the third of which discussed package 
RandomFields, which includes a function "fractal".  Are you familiar 
with this? 

      hope this helps. 
      spencer graves
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Rajarshi Guha wrote:

>Hello, I have a problem that I think can be solved in R but I'm not sure
>how to tie things together.
>
>I have a digital image of a crystal growth in 2 dimensions. And my aim
>is to calculate the fractal dimension of the crystal. I was planning to
>use the box counting method.
>
>So I need to read in the image in R (for which I can use the pixmap or
>rimage packages) and then draw a grid over at a series of resolutions
>and for each grid, count how many cells of the grid are occupied by the
>crystal. Since the image can be converted to grayscale, I figured that
>specifying an intensity threshold would allow me to differentiate
>between crystal and surrounding solution.
>
>I know this can be done in Matlab, but since I'm more comfortable in R
>can it be done in R? I found the fdim package but that calculates the
>dimension for a data.frame - but I'm not sure whether this would be
>feasible for my image.
>
>Any pointers would be appreciated
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