GeodesicDilation
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GeodesicDilation
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GeodesicDilation[marker,mask]
gives the fixed point of the geodesic dilation of the marker constrained by the mask.
Details and Options

- GeodesicDilation works with binary, grayscale, and multichannel images, operating on each channel separately.
- GeodesicDilation works with 3D as well as 2D images, and also with data arrays of any rank.
- GeodesicDilation[marker,mask] effectively starts with marker then repeatedly dilates it, masking with mask until the result no longer changes. For symbolic data, the geodesic dilation is done only once.
- GeodesicDilation[marker,mask,n] iterates the dilation process at most n times.
- GeodesicDilation effectively performs a morphological reconstruction by dilation.
- The following options can be given:
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CornerNeighbors True whether to include corner neighbors Padding None padding method to use - The default setting Padding->None considers smaller neighborhoods at the edges of an image.
Examples
open allclose allBasic Examples (2)Summary of the most common use cases
Scope (1)Survey of the scope of standard use cases
Wolfram Research (2008), GeodesicDilation, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeodesicDilation.html (updated 2012).
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Wolfram Research (2008), GeodesicDilation, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeodesicDilation.html (updated 2012).
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Wolfram Research (2008), GeodesicDilation, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeodesicDilation.html (updated 2012).
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Wolfram Research (2008), GeodesicDilation, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeodesicDilation.html (updated 2012).
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Wolfram Language. 2008. "GeodesicDilation." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2012. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeodesicDilation.html.
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Wolfram Language. 2008. "GeodesicDilation." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2012. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeodesicDilation.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2008). GeodesicDilation. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeodesicDilation.html
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Wolfram Language. (2008). GeodesicDilation. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeodesicDilation.html
BibTeX
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@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_geodesicdilation, author="Wolfram Research", title="{GeodesicDilation}", year="2012", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeodesicDilation.html}", note=[Accessed: 25-March-2025
]}
BibLaTeX
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@online{reference.wolfram_2025_geodesicdilation, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={GeodesicDilation}, year={2012}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeodesicDilation.html}, note=[Accessed: 25-March-2025
]}