Filaments - what the Astronomer's Eye Tells the Astronomer's Brain

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Jun 1987

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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, NO.2/JUN, P.109, 1987

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The authors discuss some factors that appear to dominate the process of pattern recognition by the human eye with special reference to the question of whether significant filamentary or cellular structure exists in the observed large-scale distribution of galaxies and clusters in the Universe. They illustrate the way in which photographic techniques can alter the perceived picture of galaxy clustering. A number of examples are given which demonstrate the role played by nearest-neighbour distances, orientations, visual inertia, local point densities and point sizes in biasing pattern-recognition by the eye. The authors list a number of necessary criteria to be satisfied by any useful measure of filamentary structure in a point data set.

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