Complex sentence: In Grenander's general Metric Pattern Theory, making spaces of patterns into a metric space is one of the fundamental operations since being able to cluster and recognize anatomical configurations often requires a metric of close and far between shapes.
Split into simpler sentences: In Grenander's general Metric Pattern Theory, making spaces of patterns into a metric space is one of the fundamental operations. Being able to cluster and recognize shapes and anatomical configurations often requires a metric of close and far between shapes.