Measuring shape Clear accessible and well organized this book provides a one stop resource on the various techniques of 2 and 3D shape description and measurement. It presents consistent and coherent summaries of the various methods so that engineers researchers and others can compare methods select the one appropriate for their specific task and gain enough detailed information about them to implement and test them. It includes practical application such as relating fractal dimension of nuclear membranes in cells to disease or relating harmonic analysis to weathering of sediments or classifying the genetics of squash seeds by dimensionless ratios