Timber ID program

[powderpost]

I have spent most of last week ringing around Australia trying to track down a copy of a computer program that helps identify timber, not trees. There was one I had years ago called CSIROID, but it has been lost. I have been in touch with CSIRO, and the Department of Environment and Resourch Management, which was the old Dept of Forestry.

Does any body know where I mighht get a copy of the program or one similar?

Thanks,
Jim

[steck]

Hi Jim,
There is a forum thread here for a phone app that does it!

This is a website for Inside Wood which is too technical for me, I'm afraid.

Don't know if any of this helps

[BobL]

Hi Jim,
There is a forum thread here for a phone app that does it!

This is a website for Inside Wood which is too technical for me, I'm afraid.

Don't know if any of this helps

Unfortunately timber ID "is" a technical topic and there is no way around it.

RE: iPhone App
I have that app and it's not that useful. There is one totally useless entry covering "Eucalyptus" . There are also no definitive end grain images. ie it needs a lot of work.

It's also like a lot of data bases where (apart from in this case anything Australian) there is some data is there but the tools to interrogate it are not. One of the problems with any timber ID program is the words I might describe a timber by is not necessarily what the data base uses. This means the person wishing to ID timber has to put a fair bit of homework into being able to use the data base.

[confur]

I just found my copy, and it works, at least in a dos window in WinXP.
Would like to see it preserved and used, BUT ! To use it you need a really good knowledge of at least the macro features of wood structure. No instant expertise can be expected.
I had a small booklet(by Joyce Lanyon) defining most of the terms used in this prog... still looking for it........ Found it online, at least it exists :
Card key for the identification of the commercial timbers used in New South Wales / author Joyce W. Lanyon (1981)


B/w images are not great, there's a masters deg. out there for a revamp

Ray

[glock40sw]

I have a CD here somewhere called "Euclid"
It is for Eucalypts only (I think).
Will see if I can find it.

[powderpost]

Thanks Ray, P.M. sent. I have a copy of "Hardwood Identification", by J. ilic, and I am familiar with the the macros.

BUT ! To use it you need a really good knowledge of at least the macro features of wood structure. No instant expertise can be expected.

Jim

[powderpost]

Thanks for the response Trevor, will see how things pan out.

Jim

[Catweazle]

I have a CD here somewhere called "Euclid"
It is for Eucalypts only (I think).
Will see if I can find it.

EUCLID is obtainable from CSIRO. It's still probably the benchmark resource for Australian hardwood identification:

EUCLID: Eucalypts of Australia