Play Around With a 3D Snailfish and Octopus Online

It’s early Monday morning.  You really don’t want to work.  Well let me help you out.  Grab that cup of coffee, grab your mouse, and get ready to play.  Amy Scott-Murray is a Ph.D. student at Aberdeen University who researches how digital visualization techniques can be applied in marine science. In her latest project, Scott-Murray uses a ton of photographs and specialized software to create photorealistic 3D models of animals.  The uses for this are limitless.  I am excited about tools like this for scientific collaboration.  I can send this to a say a octopus expert who could look at this and provide an identification, all more quickly and cheaply than me shipping a specimen to them.   Check out two of her reconstructions below and visit her webpage for many more.

Snailfish
by Amy Scott-Murray
on Sketchfab

Octopus
by Amy Scott-Murray
on Sketchfab

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