Quantifying the Complexity of Molars using
Surface Scans: what can I extrapolate about you
from your teeth? K-tuple landmark identification—
I will trace each jagged minima and maxima. Categorize
chip, stain, abscess. Source: fear or desire?
—requires high expertise domain knowledge.
I will spend meticulous years on a doctorate
in you. Conformal flattening: I will preserve your angles
study you in two dimensional disks.
Area-preserving diffeomorphisms; I smooth, stretch,
twist you until I understand. Bijective functions?
I will map your teeth to mine, two data sets of 26,
clustered not on evolutionary tree but on structure.
How we got here is irrelevant. We’re both here now.
Maggie Haeussler
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