tb_cplx_cr_residual — 2D typed op

• Data kinds: cimage → feature

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

tb_cplx_cr_residual: input → output

*The figure is the actual output on a synthetic 128×128 input. Left: input, right: output. Point clouds are drawn as a top-down scatter (brightness = z), 1-D series as a line plot, volumes as the maximum-intensity projection along z, videos as the middle frame, complex images as magnitude; return values that are not pictures are shown as the values themselves.*

*Knob a does not change the output (measured: identical at 0.1 / 0.5 / 0.9).*

*Knob b does not change the output (measured: identical at 0.1 / 0.5 / 0.9).*

Stages (the ops that come before → this op, left to right):

▸ tb_cplx_cr_residual: stages (docs site)

Usage

Cauchy-Riemann residual of a sampled complex field — "is this field holomorphic?" as a number.

With f = u + i v sampled on a uniform grid, holomorphy means u_x = v_y and u_y = -v_x (Cauchy-Riemann). This returns the relative residual max(|u_x - v_y|, |u_y + v_x|) / max|grad| (central differences, numpy.gradient): 0 = the samples satisfy CR to the discretisation limit, 2 = the field is the conjugate of a holomorphic one (conj(z) gives exactly 2), values in between = partly analytic or noisy.

Grid convention (it decides the sign of the answer): f[i, j] is the field at z = x0 + j*spacing + i*spacing*1j — rows index the *increasing imaginary* axis, columns the real axis. Image arrays usually run rows *downward*; feeding one directly measures the conjugate field, whose residual is 2, not 0. Flip rows (f[::-1]) to use image data.

Discretisation, honestly: central differences are exact for polynomials of degree <= 2, so f = z**2 returns exactly 0; for higher order the residual floors at O(h^2 * |f'''|) (measured: f = z**3 on a [-1,1]^2 grid returns 1.7e-3 at h and 4.2e-4 at h/2 — a factor 4.00, the expected second order). Read a small value as "consistent with holomorphic at this resolution", never as proof.

A constant field returns 0.0 (it is holomorphic; the 0/0 of the normalisation is resolved by that limit, and stated here rather than left to numpy).

Raises ValueError: not a 2-D array, either dimension below 3 (no central difference exists), non-finite/masked input, over-cap size, non-finite or non-positive *spacing*.

HALCON: no operator (derivate_gauss supplies the real-valued derivatives one would build this from).

Typed bridge of the math op cplx_cr_residual into the 2-D evolution registry: the same implementation, called under the op(v, a, b) convention. a drives spacing (default 1); b is unused.

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.

Try it in Studio

The program below has been verified to run (same input as the figure). In Studio's help this block becomes buttons that load and run it on the spot.

img_to_cimage 0.50 0.50
tb_cplx_cr_residual 0.50 0.50

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Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

The examples below call the underlying ledger op cplx_cr_residual. This bridge op is the same implementation adapted to the fn(v, a, b) convention, so the behaviour carries over unchanged (only the call form differs).

• math_complex — py -3.11 examples/math_complex.py

• poc_complex_plane_fields — py -3.11 examples/poc_complex_plane_fields.py

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

identity · feature_to_img

Same category (typed)

tb_points_to_voxel · tb_estimate_point_normals · tb_iss_keypoints · tb_project_points · tb_render_point_depth · tb_statistical_outlier_removal · tb_radius_outlier_removal · tb_voxel_grid_downsample


*Provenance: ops.py — 2D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

© 2026 Kazufumi Furuse — Fullseye operator documentation. Licensed under Apache-2.0.