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Example: Smoothed Annular Mask Function
Function
A function which creates an annular mask, the edges of which can be smoothed to a gaussian shape. This can be useful for FFT filtering.
Version
version:20100725, v1.0
Author
D. R. G. Mitchell
Acknowledgements
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Comments
Where gaussian smoothing is applied, the value of the mask at the specified internal and external radii is 0.5 ie the smoothing begins inside the mask limits. If the mask value is to be unity between the specified radii and then decrease from the mask edges, code to do this is included in the function - but commented out.
System Requirements
Should be compatible with all recent versions of DigitalMicrograph.
Known Issues
Will produce square masks only, but with no checking for integral power of two dimensions.
Supported
Yes
Included Files
Main script file.
Source Code

// Example script shows how to create an annular mask with gaussian smoothed edges.

// D. R. G. Mitchell, adminnospam@dmscripting.com.au

// version:20100725, v1.0, July 2010

 

// Function create an image for the mask

 

image createannularmask(number filtersize, number innerradius, number outerradius, number gaussedgewidth)

{

// Check that input values are OK and create a mask image

if (outerradius<innerradius)

{

number temp=outerradius

outerradius=innerradius

innerradius=temp

}

 

if(innerradius>filtersize/2) innerradius=(filtersize/2)-2

if(outerradius>filtersize/2) outerradius=(filtersize/2)-1

 

number halfsize=filtersize/2

image mask=realimage("",4,filtersize, filtersize)

mask=1

 

 

// This code (not used) applies gaussian smoothing to the mask

// value so that it is 0.5 at the specified inner/outer radius

//mask=tert(iradius<innerradius+(gwidth/2), exp(-((innerradius+(gwidth/2)-iradius)**2+(innerradius+(gwidth/2)-iradius)**2)/(Gwidth**2)),

temp)

//mask=tert(iradius>(circsize-(gwidth/2)), exp(-((circsize-(gwidth/2)-iradius)**2+(circsize-(gwidth/2)-iradius)**2)/(Gwidth**2)), temp)

 

 

// The code below sets the values of the mask to 1 out to the specified radii. The gaussian

// edges fall away from that point.

 

if(gaussedgewidth==0) gaussedgewidth=0.0001 // trap to avoid divide by zero

mask=tert(iradius<=innerradius, exp(-((innerradius-iradius)**2+(innerradius-iradius)**2)/(gaussedgewidth**2)), mask)

mask=tert(iradius>=outerradius, exp(-((outerradius-iradius)**2+(outerradius-iradius)**2)/(gaussedgewidth**2)), mask)

 

return mask

}

 

// Main program starts here

 

image mask=createannularmask(512, 100, 300, 0)

showimage(mask)