Table 1.

A comparison of the performance and characteristics of the three analysis methods.

	AFT	OrientationJ	TWOMBLI
Computational time	low (1.8–4.8 s*)	low (4.8 s**)	high (72.4 s)
Length scale analysis	+	(+)	−
Additional metrics	−	(+)	+
Automated image filtering	+	−	−

Computational time was measured on a 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 machine with 32 GB memory for a 10-image sample. ‘+’: yes, ‘(+)’: yes, but requires further post-processing,

^‘*’:depends on window size;

^‘**’:with a dedicated macro.