menisadi / medial-axis-of-shapefiles

A small script to find the medial axis of shapefiles

Medial Axis Generator

Description

This Python module generates the medial axis of a binary image and provides an option to save the result as an image. The medial axis is a skeleton-like representation of the input binary image, often used in image processing.

Usage

Install necessary packages:

pip install matplotlib geopandas skicit-image

First convert the shapefile to a simple black and white image:

python convert_shp_to_bw_png.py <path_to_shapefile> <name_for_output_image> <dpi>

Then run the medial axis generator:

python find_medial_axis.py <path_to_image> <dpi>

The dpi parameter on both script is optional and defaults to 1000.

Example

Here are the results of running the scripts on the shapefile in the data folder:

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.