ph_heat_flow — 2D physics op

• Data kinds: image → image

• Call: fullseye.apply(img, "ph_heat_flow", a=0.5, b=0.5) (the 2-D model is one image plus two scalar knobs a,b∈[0,1])

Usage

Linear heat equation / isotropic diffusion (HALCON `isotropic_diffusion`).

Explicit FTCS integration of I_t = lap(I) for a few steps (dt=0.2, stable for

the 2-D 5-point stencil). This is exactly linear isotropic diffusion, i.e. the

Green's-function-equivalent of Gaussian smoothing; `a` sets the diffusion time

(step count), so larger a blurs more. `b` is unused.

Detailed usage guide

• gallery2d_physics_alife_3d family guide

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• gallery2d_physics_alife_3d — py -3.11 examples/gallery2d_physics_alife_3d.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept image as input)

identity · gaussian · mean_box · bilateral · unsharp · median · min_filter · max_filter

Same category (physics)

ph_perona_malik · ph_coherence_enhancing_diffusion · ph_reaction_diffusion · ph_mean_curvature_motion · ph_total_variation_flow

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