H.K. Mebatsion1, P. Verboven1, Q. T. Ho1, F. Mendoza1, B. E. Verlinden2, T. A. Nguyen1, B. M. Nicolaï1,2
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.14, No.1, pp. 1-14, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2006.014.001
Abstract Modeling plant microstructure is of great interest to food engineers to study and explain material properties related to mass transfer and mechanical deformation. In this paper, a novel ellipse tessellation algorithm to generate a 2D geometrical model of apple tissue is presented. Ellipses were used to quantify the orientation and aspect ratio of cells on a microscopic image. The cell areas and centroids of each cell were also determined by means of a numerical procedure. These characteristic quantities were then described by means of probability density functions. The model tissue geometry was generated from the ellipses, which were truncated when… More >
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