Good evening

[stereologist]

Thought I would drop in

[Turtle]

any landing you survive is a good landing. :)

[pamela]

hello stereologist,

welcome!!:teeth:

[Michaelangelica]

Good morning and welcome.:teeth:

[socialsamurai]

Welcome, welcome.

[Moontanman]

Welcome stereo, what's is your "cup o tea" or interests?

[CraigD]

Hello, stereologist, and welcome to hypography.

 

I browsed your webpage, stereothenainc.com, discovering that we’ve various connections via Virginia Tech (which I’m old enough to remember being known mainly as VPI). I lived a few years just over the border from Blacksburg in Athens, WV, my mother-in-law’s birthplace and home, long enough to meet my wife and get my Math BS. My mom, who’s retired and living in Princeton WV, got her PhD in Public Health at Tech, and I got my first hands-on acquaintance with the odd little programming language what would and continues to dominate my professional life, MUMPS, as well as with various gamers and folk who dress in medieval garb and like to whack each other with duct tape-wrapped rattan sticks.

 

You’ve also introduced me to a field of which I’ve never before heard stereology, which, contrary to my first guesses, appears to have nothing to do with either binocular vision nor audio equipment.

 

Based on you background and your first few posts, I think you’ll find hypography a great place to learn and teach, and hope to see you around here in the future.

[stereologist]

Stereology is an often used, but oddly enough an unknown science. It's all about determining geometric quantities.

 

An example may be useful. Suppose you want to create some cash and have a wooded lot that you might consider timbering. You wonder how much money you can get for the wood on the land. There are methods to estimate the amount of available lumber on the property without cutting down trees. If the money is small you might want to enjoy looking at the trees. Or if the money sounds could you might consider reaping the lumber.

 

Volume is a geometrical quantity.

 

In land use studies you might want to know if a section of the Midwest has adequate wind breaks to prevent dust bowl conditions. Lines of trees visible in aerial photographs can be picked out quickly by a human observer. The length of wind breaks per unit area of land is useful in understanding the situation.

 

Length is a geometrical quantity.

 

Biological studies often want to know how many cells there are. Metallurgical studies want to know about the sizes of grains in an alloy. Asphalt studies want to know about the amount of asphalt per surface area of the aggregate poured into the mix.