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Implement aspect
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enhancement
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- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 2
- Forks
- 11
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Description
Implement the aspect calculation from GRIDobj.aspect. This is a local, neighborhood-based calculation, so it should be similar to gradient8. The MATLAB implementation uses the built-in surfnorm function which appears to do bicubic interpolation of the surface.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the existing gradient8 implementation and the GRIDobj.aspect reference, then compare the MATLAB surfnorm behavior described in the issue. Done means the local, neighborhood-based aspect calculation is implemented consistently with those references.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100