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Apologies to everybody. I meant to forward, not reply. On 14/09/2012 13:43, Pierre LANARI wrote: > Dear Members, > > We are pleased to introduce our new Matlab-based software for X-ray > image processing : XMapTools. > > This new Graphic User Interface (GUI) allows for the automatic > allocation of the pixels in an image for a range of compositions (e.g. > minerals) using a clustering approach. Thus, each mineral pixel is > transformed into an oxide composition using a Castaing approach and > point mode analysis (details can be found in De Andrade et al. 2006). > The maps of oxide composition can be translated into maps of > structural formulas or into pressure and temperature maps using > empirical and semi-empirical geothermobarometers from the literature. > The XMapTools package includes two additional modules with a GUI for > chemical studies. Structural formulas of all the pixels in each > mineral can be plotted into binary (Chem2D) or ternary (TriPlot3D) > petrological diagrams. > > This package and the User Notice can be download for free on our > website : http://www.xmaptools.com/ > > This first public version (v1.5.2), includes ~50 functions, and also > new functions can be easily added by users and will be included in the > future releases/updates. > > We hope you will find this program useful for petrological studies. > Anyone interested should contact us for further details (contact form > : http://www.xmaptools.com/?page_id=75). > > > Pierre Lanari & Olivier Vidal > > > > > -- Inga Sevastjanova Post Doctoral Research Fellow SE Asia Research Group Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK