In early February of 1994, I decided that I had passed all my exams and that it was time to end my study Computer Science at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen and get my masters degree. I w alked into Theo Schoutens room, to ask for an assignment f o r m y master thesis. He said that he was doing research on setting optimal thresholds for segmentation techniques and he thought imitating sate...