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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