As a result, while larger size clusters are formed in pure Ni, smaller and more clusters are observed in the alloys.
Where the more the shorter distance of joining implies the more clusters are similar.
For a higher threshold, more clusters are computed (and hence more similarity computations are executed) than for a lower threshold.
When SU density is low, most of the SUs may be disconnected from each other and more clusters are formed.
Consequently, if two (or more) clusters are detected with at least 4 pairs of matched points linking a cluster to another, then the corresponding regions are considered cloned.
Upon agglomerating, if two or more clusters are detected with at least 4 pairs of matched points linking each other, then the corresponding regions are deemed cloned.
The relationship between the number of clusters and within cluster error (Figure 3C) indicates that this trend can be represented by a power-law function with lower errors when more clusters are used.
For the other two EPIs, more clusters were obtained.
In most cases, calls of two or more clusters were connected by short intervals of silence.
Although the mean quality increases slightly with larger numbers of clusters, more clusters are not suitable for the data because of their instability.
