Hello, sorry the topic does not summarise the question as it is not easy to explain in a simple sentence.

Suppose I have a 3D array holding x y values and a state variable which is either 1 or 0.

Some function updates this array and another function draws it to the screen. A for loop iterates through x,y pairs and draws a point if state variable is 1 and draws a black(bg color) point if it is 0. So an array like this:

Code:

00000000000000100000000
00000000000011100000000
00000000000001111110000
00000000001111111100000
00000001111111001111110
01111111111110000110000
00011111111111111111100
00000011111000011100000
00000001110000001000000
00000000100000000000000
00000000000000000000000
 

You'd be seeing the 1's on the screen and 0's would be black.

What I want to do with this data is:
I want to see the outlines of the closed shapes in a curved manner. As you can see, the shape I've shown has a weird form with a hole in it. I want to take this data and visualise its outlines smoothly(a parameter like "how smooth?" would be nice).

I just can't think of a way to do it. Any help yielding to the direction of a solution would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

What exactly do you mean by "smoothly"?

It seems like you could build some sort of vector image so you can reproduce the figure using bezier curves instead of a bitmap so you can control the "smoothness factor".

I believe that would be pretty hard to do, specially if you include figures with "holes" (non-manifold figures I believe).

The solution JohnG points out seems easier to do. Apply some kind of blur filter to the image, maybe even to the outer edges only, so you can take the outline of the image 3-5 pixels deep and blur/smooth only those, kind of like Photoshop's "feather" radius.