Sorry, I misspoke, ... in spatstat the correct way to convert a 0/1
valued image to a window is to use 'solutionset'. Example:
my.window <- solutionset(my.image == 1)
my.distmap <- distmap(my.window)
The first line computes the region of 'ONEs' --- all pixels which have
the pixel value 1 in my.image.
Adrian Baddeley