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A new, highly automated method for measuring plane motion, pattern mapping, has been developed for rigidbody motion and strain analysis. Pattern mapping employs image processing and syntactic pattern recognition principles to recognize a known pattern before and after motion. In this paper, the Lagrangian definition of motion was used to map points in the two images, and the map was used to determine plane motion. Full-image analysis is thoroughly demonstrated.
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Fail, R.W., Taylor, C.E. An application of pattern mapping to plane motion. Experimental Mechanics 30, 404–410 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02321512
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