Tutorial: Making a Scatter Plot of
Measurements
Mira uses the
Create Plot from Grid command to graph the
values in two columns of a
Grid Control. The Create Plot from Grid command
also has the ability to plot error bars in both the x and y
directions. In the example below,
statistics measurements were used to create 2
scatter plots, one from measurements of a single image and the
other from a single measurement of an
image set. The related
Create Chart from Grid command creates
presentation quality graphics but is not covered in this
tutorial.
First,
open an image set for the BL-CAM*.fts sample images provided with the Mira
installation. Use File > Open to open the dialog below,
then select all 5 images as shown:
In the Options box at
the bottom of the dialog, notice that the "Open as Image Set"
option is chosen so that all 5 images will be opened into a single
Image Window.
For the first example,
you will makes measurements of a single image even though an image
set is opened. To do this, make sure the
Measure image set flag is set to "single image" mode
with the button as shown at left
(circled in red). In single image mode, the Measure Image
Set button on the
Image Bar appears gray as shown.
Activate
Cursor Mode and move the
image cursor around to several location in the first
image, clicking the button at each location to
measure statistics. Each measurement adds a new row to the
statistics table. Before the first measurement, the table was
cleared using the View > Clear command in the menu for
the Grid Control. After 6 such measurements, the
Statistics report looks like this:
The table was in Single
Selection Mode (set in the
Grid Context Menu) so that all rows would be plotted.
Next, the
Create Plot from Grid dialog was opened by
right clicking on the table:
In this dialog, the #
column (sequential measurement number) was selected for the
horizontal axis variable and Mean
column (mean value) was selected for the vertical axis variable.
After checking the Y Axis Error Bars
option, the Std Dev column (standard
deviation) was selected for the error bars. This produced the
following plot showing the Mean value and its variation for each
image location:
Another example of a measurement that is quick to
get involves opening a series of images as an image set, then
making a single statistics measurement at one location of the
Image Cursor. The statistics report looks like the
following:
This produced the following scatter plot. As you
can see from the report, the median value is identical for
measurements 3 and 5. This produced two nearly-overlapping points
in the plot.
Related Topics
Contents
Tutorials
Create Plot from Grid
Create Chart from Grid
Grid Controls
Report Windows
Grid Context Menu
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