Piximètre’s way of working, on your Mac and phone.
Piximètre has served mycologists well for twenty years, but it only runs on Windows. Mycrometer works the same way: you calibrate from a micrometer and click across each spore. It runs on a Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android or any browser, and it reads and writes Piximètre’s files.
Bring your measurements with you
- Import from Piximètre… reads the measurement files Piximètre saves: the Formulator’s Enregistrer files (one length and width per line, decimal comma or point) and the older semicolon files. The measurements are added to the current sample as whatever you’ve chosen under Measuring (spores, basidia…).
- Imported measurements have no photo, so they aren’t drawn, but they count in the results, the plot and the CSV like any others. The table marks them ⇣, and the results say how many were imported.
- Export for Piximètre… saves one structure’s measurements as a Piximètre file, ready to drop onto its Formulator or Comparator. Handy if a colleague still uses it.
Piximètre’s .piximtr files (the whole working context) aren’t documented, so Mycrometer can’t read them. Save your series from the Formulator as text instead.
What’s the same, and what’s different
- Same: calibrate from a stage micrometer, click both ends of the length and both sides of the width, and get the same statistics: ranges, Q, Me, Qe and volume.
- Ranges are given as (min–)p5–p95(–max), the usual way of writing them in descriptions.
- Snapping: calibration clicks snap to the division lines, and the divisions are counted for you. Measurement ends slide onto the spore wall. Hold Alt/Option to switch it off for a click.
- Structures: every measurement says what it’s of (spores, basidia, cheilocystidia…), and each gets its own results line.
- In French too: Mycrometer’s screens and Help are available in French, with decimal commas.
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