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An improved vision system is provided for identifying and assessing features of an article. Systems are provided for developing feature assessment programs, which, when deployed, may inspect parts and/or provide position information for guiding automated manipulation of such parts. The improved syst

An improved vision system is provided for identifying and assessing features of an article. Systems are provided for developing feature assessment programs, which, when deployed, may inspect parts and/or provide position information for guiding automated manipulation of such parts. The improved system is easy to use and facilitates the development of versatile and flexible article assessment programs. In one aspect, the system comprises a set of step tools from which a set of step objects is instantiated. The set of step tools may comprise machine vision step objects that comprise routines for processing an image of the article to provide article feature information. A control flow data structure and a data flow data structure may each be provided. The control flow data structure charts a flow of control among the step objects. The data flow data structure includes a data flow connection providing access to portions of the data flow data structure for at least one of individual accessing and individual defining of a data source for a given step object.

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1. A computer-readable medium encoded with a program, said program comprising:a set of step tools from which a set of step objects is instantiated, said set of step objects comprising machine vision step objects that comprise routines for processing an image of an article to provide article feature

1. A computer-readable medium encoded with a program, said program comprising:a set of step tools from which a set of step objects is instantiated, said set of step objects comprising machine vision step objects that comprise routines for processing an image of an article to provide article feature information; a control flow data structure for charting a flow of control among said step objects, said control flow data structure comprising a control flow connection, said control flow connection providing access to portions of said control flow data structure for at least one of individual accessing and individual defining of a following step object specified to follow a given step object; and a data flow data structure for charting a flow of data among said step objects, said data flow data structure comprising a data flow connection, said data flow connection providing access to portions of said data flow data structure for at least one of individual accessing and individual defining of a data source for a given step object.