My extolling the wonders for productivity given by windows 8.1 and Onedrive, and my disappointment with Windows 10
Why Windows 8.1 and Onedrive are awesome (and Windows 10 is RUBBISH)
SVPCA and the energising power of academic meetings
I'm back from SVPCA and after seeing all the active research, feel I can finish all my projects too... Except....
Sharing vs Presenting digital data -or- Please don’t use 3D PDFs; just upload obj/ply
This post is as much about initiating discussion as it is about my own thoughts on the matter, so feel free to comment away, here, or twitter, or google+ or wherever – I’m interested in thoughts and perspectives. So… 3D PDFs. They seem like a really good idea right? You can encapsulate 3D information to... Continue Reading →
Ugh!… Being useful? This is not what I signed up for!
As a palaeontologist, sometimes it can be difficult to justify what you do to the people down the local pub. From personal experience, I’ve learnt that when surrounded by a teacher, plumber, mechanic and farmer, announcing that the EU just gave you a substantial pot of money to look at 200 million year old dinosaur... Continue Reading →
I'm featured on May's Palaeocast. Go have a listen.
Listen to me on Palaeocast
(This guide was actually written 25/5/13, but should still be applicable. PDF here) This guide will hopefully provide a quick start to processing CT data and exporting models using 3D slicer (http://download.slicer.org/). The documentation available for Slicer is pretty fragmented and/or out of date (referring to considerably older versions), so this guide is based on... Continue Reading →
A rough guide to getting models out of CT scans using 3D Slicer (v4)
The Historical Photogrammetry Challenge – over to you!
In 2014, colleagues and I published a photogrammetric reconstruction of the Paluxy River dinosaur ‘chase sequence,’ as generated from photographs taken before and during its excavation in 1940. (Blog post here). Photogrammetry has become pretty common now; commercial and open source programs are widely being used by all kinds of people, including palaeontologists, and there are... Continue Reading →
Weighing Dinosaurs (and other animals) with Meshlab
A couple of years ago, I was part of a group that published a method on calculating body mass in extinct animals from laser scans of their skeletons. The method involves separating the model into parts, and then using the qhull command to produce a volume that encloses the segment as tightly as possible. This... Continue Reading →
I love it when a plan comes together
I was clearing out some papers from my desk draw, and came across this: This is an initial idea Steve and I sketched, one day in mid 2012, of how we thought some of the Amherst tracks were being formed. Ultimately, those first discussions lead to this figure in our recent paper: It's nice to see... Continue Reading →
The birth of a dinosaur footprint
Monday saw the release of a paper that Steve Gatesy and I have been brewing up for the past couple of years. The paper is published in PNAS, and is titled: The birth of a dinosaur footprint: Subsurface 3D motion reconstruction and discrete element simulation reveal track ontogeny. It's a bit of a long title,... Continue Reading →
Prof. Peter L. Falkingham 