From 8ed834a3ab6651e35ecca487f69d0dc85ee18435 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony S Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:02:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add example for threshoding

This example was removed in a previous commit.
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 doc/examples/plot_otsu.py | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
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+"""
+============
+Thresholding
+============
+
+Thresholding is used to create a binary image. This example uses Otsu's method to calculate the threshold value.
+
+"""
+
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+from skimage.data import camera
+from skimage.filter import threshold_otsu
+
+
+image = camera()
+thresh = threshold_otsu(image)
+binary = image > thresh
+
+plt.imshow(binary)
+plt.axis('off')
+plt.show()
+