Palaeo3D

23/03/2020

Tenontosaurus, 1/10 scale 3D print ❤️

16/12/2019

Work.

Sometimes, it is simply great :)

06/11/2019

The stuff I work on.

The second-most complete T. rex is about to embark on a world tour. Will museum attendance records fall to this mighty hunter?

05/10/2019

A short while ago I had the please of cleaning this toe bone up (lots of Hell Creek mud on it), puzzling it back together, gluing it and (who would have thought?) 3D digitizing it :) Great fun!

Annoyingly, the spongy bone on the inside had become encrusted with carbonate along the breaks so badly, that any attempt to remove all the excess material would have damaged and removed much of the real spongy bone. In the end, I opted to remove as much as I could, but accept some small gaps between the big pieces. Also, some edges had crumbled a bit, making the break far more visible. Still, a most beautiful bone, and knowing what I know about the rest of the fossil..... well, sorry, can't say yet ;)

03/08/2019

Recently finally met with my esteemed colleagure Henry-Louis Guillaume of ULB Panorama (https://www.facebook.com/ulb.panorama/). We talked a lot about various photogrammetry needs and options and methods. Here, he tried my very rapid capture method :)

Photogrammetry Test - A 3D model collection by Panorama ()

31/07/2019

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Just enter code "summer sale" in the online order form.

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(please note: orders for scales not in sets are excluded from this offer)

Palaeo3D photogrammetry scale bars are optimized for use in Agisoft Metashape (Photoscan) and Reality Capture.

Scale bars Highly accurate photogrammetric data capture requires highly accurate scale bars.Palaeo3D has created affordable scale bars optimized for easy data capture and a speedy workflow during model building. Additionally, the scales use coded targets that Agisoft Photoscan Pro / Metashape Pro an...

25/06/2019

Today, a small riddle for you: what is this? And why am I doing what I am doing?

17/03/2019

Mounted bones? Entire dinosaurs?

Can all be scanned :) Here at a resolution suitable for printing small-scale models (Giraffatitan) and for placing individual high-res scans of bones into a given articulation, in this case the existing mount (Elpahrosaurus).

31/12/2018

Today, as some of you may know, the utterly awesome Juramuseum Eichstätt opened its doors for what may well be the very last time! There appears now to be a three month grace period, during which the museum will stay closed and some renovations will be carried out. A three month grace period that allows all those involved in the museum's funding and running to keep negotiations going and maybe, hopefully, reach a consensus that allows this great place to re-open.

Well, I have been very busy indeed lately, what with work (secret!), family and my wife's work (moving; I need to help), so although I knew about the imminent closure for quite a while I only managed to pay a last visit to the Juramuseum today.

Admittedly, I make 3D models of all kinds of museum objects without explicit permission quite often. For my own enjoyment, though, not for commercial purposes. Sometimes, I send them off to the museum in question, and usually those data packages are either well received or at least not detested. Only once did I find a curator totally royally pi**ed - data theft he called it. Well, there is a "delete" button in my keyboard...... Needless to say, a few months later the curator asked me to re-send, as he wanted to make use of the data 🙄

So today, I spent some time creating very high resolution models of some of the more beautiful fossils on show at the Juramuseum. For my own enjoyment, so please do not ask me for the data unless you have the museum's OK.

For YOUR enjoyment, here's a few orthophotos rendered from the colored (not textured) models :) These are JPG versions of reduced resolution (50% both axes, so 25% overall!) orthophotos. Yes, as just a 'regular' museum visitor I was able to capture this level of detail. And yes, these models are very exactly scaled, using my own highly accurate Palaeo3D scale bars :D [/bragging]

Have fun, and X your fingers that the Juramuseum will come back, ideally even better funded, on April 1, 2019!

(You can read some more about the museum here on my personal blog: https://dinosaurpalaeo.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/juramuseum-eichstatt/
Note that back then, the threat of closure was not even on the horizon.)

08/12/2018

The improvement in software capabilities between 2016 and today is amazing!
This is Reality Capture (www.capturingreality.com), delivering very high quality models in amazingly short times that were totally out of question back when I captured the raw data.

Giraffatitan tail vertebrae, MfN Berlin mount.

15/11/2018

Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki, MfN Berlin.