Automated techniques to quantify surface area and assign coordinates to objects

I am interested in any automated techniques to quantify the surface area of objects, and to assign an ID to each object based on an overlaid grid.

I am attempting to quantify the growth of individual modules that together make a colonial animal. My hope is to overlay a grid small enough such that each coordinate (i.e. A20) contains a single module, and then quantify the surface area of that module.

Has anyone achieved similar goals in Matlab?

Cheers,

Lianne

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/7924-where-can-i-upload-images-and-files-for-use-on-matlab-answers

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

If your module is not convex, then How long is the coast of Britain?