skimage2.morphology.diamond

skimage2.morphology.diamond(radius, dtype=<class 'numpy.uint8'>, *, decomposition=None)

Generates a flat, diamond-shaped footprint.

A pixel is part of the neighborhood (i.e. labeled 1) if the city block/Manhattan distance between it and the center of the neighborhood is no greater than radius.

Parameters:

radiusint

The radius of the diamond-shaped footprint.

Returns:

footprintndarray or tuple

The footprint where elements of the neighborhood are 1 and 0 otherwise. When decomposition is None, this is just a numpy.ndarray. Otherwise, this will be a tuple whose length is equal to the number of unique structuring elements to apply (see Notes for more detail)

Other Parameters:

dtypedtype-like, optional

The data type of the footprint.

decomposition{None, ‘sequence’}, optional

If None, a single array is returned. For ‘sequence’, a tuple of smaller footprints is returned. Applying this series of smaller footprints will given an identical result to a single, larger footprint, but with better computational performance. See Notes for more details.

Notes

When decomposition is not None, each element of the footprint tuple is a 2-tuple of the form (ndarray, num_iter) that specifies a footprint array and the number of iterations it is to be applied.

For either binary or grayscale morphology, using decomposition='sequence' was observed to have a performance benefit, with the magnitude of the benefit increasing with increasing footprint size.