Morpheus et al.

Software for morphometric research
(c) 1994-1998 Dennis E. Slice

Morpheus et al. is a software package that will provide a comprehensive, cross-platform environment for morphometric data analysis. It is available in graphical and command-line versions for a number of operating systems (see below). More information about new features and previous changes can be found in the release notes, relnotes.txt (6k).

To obtain and install a copy of Morpheus et al., first download and review the installation text file. Download the Morpheus et al. User's Manual. Follow the link appropriate to your operating environment. There, download all the other files related to your operating system. Then, follow the instructions in the installation file.

Click here to see screen captures of Morpheus et al.

Click here to browse Morpheus et al.'s online help.

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Current Release: 01/30/98 (US)

Text file describing installation on all platforms (8k, ascii) - install.txt .
Morpheus et al. User's Manual for all platforms (16k, ascii) - manual.txt .

Link to DOS/OS2/WINDOWS files.
Link to MAC files (command-line only).
Link to UNIX files for AIX, LINUX, SGI, and SOLARIS.

Betas

Beta versions of Morpheus feature bugfixes, structural changes, and/or new features, some of which may cause problems. Only the executables, a text file (beta.txt) explaining the features being tested, and perhaps, sample data files are distributed as part of a beta release. This means you must have already installed the current release to use a beta versions. Please report any problems to the author.

11/10/98: WIN16 BETA

Win16 Beta: Black-on-white printing, image scaling, TPS import/export enhancements, misc. fixes.

05/22/98: PPC/WIN16 BETA

Mac-PPC Beta: Beta release of superimposition and Elliptic Fourier Analysis previously released for Win16 beta plus some changes and bug fixes.

Win16 Beta: Bug fixes and changes made during course of Mac port.

04/15/98: POSTER

The online version of a poster presented at the 1998 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Salt Lake City, Utah. The poster presents a comparison of scapula shapes in lowland and mountain gorillas using the superimposition and outline capabilities in the current Win16 beta version of Morpheus.

03/20/98: WIN16 BETA

Featuring bitmap-based Edit|Copy function for plots and "first drafts" of Least-Squares and Generalized Least-Squares superimposition and Elliptic Fourier Analysis.

The leftmost image above shows the results of a Generalized Least-Squares superimposition of 5 landmarks digitized from images (provided by Dr. Andrea Taylor) of 110 scapulae from males and females of lowland (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and mountain (G. g. beringei) gorilla. The righmost image shows the thin-plate spline mapping (x10) of the average lowland male to the average lowland female.

Plot of grand mean and sex x species mean scapula outlines of the gorilla data based on an 8-harmonic Elliptic Fourier analysis.

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Citation

Please cite Morpheus et al. as (with revision modified as appropriate):

Slice, Dennis E. 1998. Morpheus et al.: software for morphometric research. Revision 01-30-98. Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York.

Links...

Stuart Poss and Robert Cromwell's laser-scanning webpage.
Stony Brook Morphometrics webpage.
Mauro J. Cavalcanti's Digital Taxonomy webpage.

Acknowledgements

Work on Morpheus et al. has been supported by grant BIR-9503024 from the National Science Foundation, USA.

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