surface area of a whole morphology

[mikey]

I wonder if there is any tool that can sum up the surface area of a full morphology? As to do it manually would take an age. Thanks so much.

[hines]

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a=0
forall for (x) a += area(x)
print a

[hines]

I forgot to mention that the previous code fragment assumed only one cell (e.g, no acell_home_). Slightly more elaborate for a network model is the following function which returns the area of the cell containing the currently accessed section

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func cellarea() { local a, x   localobj cell
    cell = new SectionList()
    cell.wholetree()
    a = 0
    forsec cell for (x,0) { a += area(x) }
    return a
}