Talk:Zhang-Suen thinning algorithm

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Inverted axis?

Could someone help explain why, in the example image the following transformation occurs (in the periods separating the R and C, and after the C):

.....    .....
.###. -> .....
.#?#.    ..#..
.....    .....

Surely the the cell labelled '?' will be culled at step 1:

- It is black with 8 neighbours
- B = 5 (2 <= 5 <= 6)
- A = 1
- At least one of P2 P4 P6 is white (P6 is white)
- At least one of P4 P6 P8 is white (P6 is white)

Why isn't it whitened at step 1?

--Tim-brown (talk) 17:33, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I expect that there are removals of some of those surrounding cells before it gets to your '?' cell which affects the final outcome. --Paddy3118 (talk) 18:54, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm considering what happens to this individual cell (not necessarily its neighbours). As far as I am concerned, the situation I describe above is the calculation for Step-1 of the first iteration. Nothing has changed (i.e. been removed) before this: all changes are stored, and applied `after` the analysis. So the step-1 rule should apply to cell '?'. And it should be blank (by my interpretation of the rules). But it ain't.

--Tim-brown (talk) 19:27, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

You are right the table given of P1 to P9 in the task page is actually transformed but ins such a way that the output is thinned in the same way (but with an offset possibly). I am actually calculating with:

P7P6P5
P8P1P4
P9P2P3

I've got an inverted vertical axis it seems. --Paddy3118 (talk) 22:32, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Now I'm a bit more confident in posting my Racket solution! ---Tim-brown (talk) 09:50, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Is the thinned version of the big "R.C." in the task description correct? I have it as:

...........................................................
...........................................................
....#.##########.......................#######.............
.....##........#...................####.......#............
.....#..........#.................##.......................
.....#..........#................#.........................
.....#..........#................#.........................
.....#..........#................#.........................
.....############...............#..........................
.....#..........#...............#..........................
.....#..........#................#.........................
.....#..........#................#.........................
.....#..........#................#.........................
.....#............................##.......................
.....#.............................############............
.......................###..........................###....
...........................................................
...........................................................

---Tim-brown (talk) 10:05, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

I've corrected that too Tim. Thanks. --Paddy3118 (talk) 22:30, 18 October 2013 (UTC)


Three Data Files

To avoid every entry to needlessly contain the same large tables, I suggest to add to the task description three links to the tree files of the test cases. -bearophile (talk)

I think if the outputs are typically in ./# form, the inputs probably should be too, rather than csv. --TimToady (talk) 15:53, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Mathematica's in-built algorithm

I converted Mathematica's ones and zeros to something I could see and it seems that their in-built thinning algorithm does not give the same result as that of Zhang Suen.

I think that it is right and proper to show the output of the in-built function as I would expect that to be used, but I also asked for an implementation of the ZS algorithm as I maked it incomplete.

If you think that is wrong then just give your argument please.

The following is just a code dump of how I converted to ascii art for comparison using Python:

<lang python>>>> print( { {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}}.replace('{', '(').replace('}', ')'))

( (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0), (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)) >>> inp = ( (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0), (0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0), (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)) >>> print('\n'.join(.join(('#' if x else ' ') for x in line) for line in inp))

#########       ########       
###   ####     ####  ####      
###    ###     ###    ###      
###   ####     ###             
#########      ###             
### ####       ###    ###      
###  ####  ### ####  #### ###  
###   #### ###  ########  ###  
                               

>>> print('\n'.join(.join(('#' if x else ' ') for x in line) for line in out))

  ####            ###          
 #    #          #   ###       
 #     #        #              
 #     #        #              
  ##  #         #              
 #  ###         #              
 #     #         #    ##       
        ## ##     ####    ##   
                               

>>> </lang> --Paddy3118 (talk) 20:20, 18 June 2014 (UTC)