This was a project from the 2015 Calgary Geoscience Hackathon organized by Agile Geoscience. You can read more on the hackathon in an Article on the September 2015 issue of the Canadain Society of Exploration Geophysicists journal Recorder: Open Collaboration: Hackathons and Tomorrow’s Subsurface Software.
The original idea, proposed by Elwyn at the Hackathon, was to make an app that would turn an image of geological sketch into a model:
The implementation of the finished app involves using morphological filtering and other image processing methods to enhance the sketch image and convert it into a model with discrete bodies, then pass it on to Agile's modelr.io to create a synthetic.
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