Thicken vs Dilate

[vgvallee]

Is there a difference between the Thicken and the Dilate methods of the Morphology function?

I'm doing this to pad my regions with 10px:

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image.Morphology(ImageMagick.MorphologyMethod.Dilate, ImageMagick.Kernel.Disk, "9.5", 1);

I tried to find the proper kernel to do a similar thing but haven't succeeded yet. I'm thinking that it may be faster.

Would it achieve the same results and would it be faster or am I losing my time?

Thanks.

[dlemstra]

You can find the difference between those two Morphology methods here:

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/morphology/#dilate
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/morphology/#thicken