ENTROPIC AND MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS OF DISORDERED MORPHOLOGIES

Abstract

We propose the configuration entropy as an efficient tool of characterization of the disorder of random morphologies and as a pertinent morphological parameter for describing the optical properties. When increasing the size of observation of an image, it undergoes a maximum at a characteristic length which is the optimum length at which the image must be observed to get the maximum information. When applied to computer simulated images, the configuration entropy is more powerful, less ambiguous and less sensitive to the finite size of images than the generalized fractal dimension.