Volume 0. Getting Started 414 - Machined Surfaces

Machined Surfaces

An imaging device furnishes digital images of two machined surfaces that eventually will be assembled in contact with each other. The roughness of this final contact is to be estimated.

A digital image is composed of the two characters, "X" and " "(space). There are always 25 columns to an image, but the number of rows,N, is variable. Column one (1) will always have an"X" in it and will be part of the left surface. The left surface can extend to the right from column one (1) as contiguousX's.

Similarly, column 25 will always have an "X" in it and will be part of the right surface. The right surface can extend to the left from column 25 as contiguousX's.

Digital-Image View of Surfaces

 
		 Left     		                           Right



		 XXXX                                              XXXXX	 

		 XXX                                             XXXXXXX

		 XXXXX                                              XXXX

		 XX                                               XXXXXX

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