Computational Resources

The following programs and computational resources were develop through a number of projects and years, often by graduate students or postdocs:

• Morphometry.org (by Fabian Schaller and Sebastian Kapfer): Check out this great page for interactive demos about Minkowski tensors and the like, and for links to our robust codes “Papaya” and “Karambola” for computing Minkowski tensors in 2 and 3 dimensions.
• Spherical Minkowski code (by Sebastian Kapfer): Calculate spherical Minkowski tensors and structure metrics. They make for great shape descriptors, especially for cellular systems or point patterns.
• Pomelo, Set Voronoi of non-spherical objects in 3D (by Simon Weiss and Philipp Schönhöfer): A neat program to calculate the Voronoi diagrams of assemblies of non-spherical particles. Any shape will do, pretty much…
• Voxelised Minimal Surface Structures (by Sebastian Kapfer): These are the data sets used in our 2011 Biomaterials article Minimal surfaces as bone scaffold designs for the FEM calculations.
• Erpel : FEM code for effective elastic properties of voxelised spatial structures (by Sebastian Kapfer): A simple homegrown FEM code to calculate linear elastic properties of voxelised binary periodic structures, used in a number of projects.
• Voxelised Representations from Triangulated Surfaces (by Sebastian Kapfer): A small program to convert surface mesh representations of periodic surfaces into sheet solids or into network solids, ie into voxelised representations.