tb_cplx_cr_residual — 2D typed op

Data kinds: cimagefeature

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])

*No figure: this op takes cimage as input. A Studio program starting from an image cannot reach that type — see the runnable examples below for how it is used.*

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.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• (none yet)

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

identity

Same category (typed)

tb_points_to_voxel · tb_estimate_point_normals · tb_iss_keypoints · tb_angle_3points · tb_project_points · tb_render_point_depth · tb_statistical_outlier_removal · tb_radius_outlier_removal


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

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