Palaeontologist: Dinosaur Footprints – Biomechanics – Simulation
Last week saw the publication of a new paper by me and my colleague Angela Horner concerning the production of traces by terrestrially locomoting lungfish. Lungfish, as their name suggests, are perfectly capable of breathing air. When the body of water they are living in dries up, they are able to move over land to find... Continue Reading →
In which I tried - and failed - to document pros and cons for about a million different combinations of software.
OpenMVG is a pipeline for structure from motion. I’ll go through the basics of downloading, installing, and running it on Windows 10. It does actually compile on Windows, but it can be a royal pain in the rear to get everything set up properly (requiring Visual Studio, Python, and a lot of luck). Far... Continue Reading →
Continuing my series of using photogrammetry software, we come to MeshRecon, by Zhuoliang Kang. This is one of my favourite photogrammetry pipelines, and it's dead easy to use: Download the Zip file from Kang's Webpage here: http://zhuoliang.me/meshrecon.html Unzip the folder somewhere, and inside are 4 sub-folders (img, meshrecon, results, and vsfm), a readme, and a... Continue Reading →
This is a re-post of a document I placed on Academia.edu a few years ago. In fact, that academia paper has sat in Academia.edu's top 0.5% of papers in terms of views for some time. However, I'm reposting for two reasons: 1. Academia.edu have added so many 'premium' (i.e. costly) features that I'd like it... Continue Reading →
Ok, this isn’t really necessary, but I’m posting it for completeness sake as part of an upcoming blog post. This will just give you a quick rundown on how wiz through Agisoft’s Photoscan and generate a model. If you’d like a more in-depth piece, I suggest Heinrich Mallison and Oliver Wing’s paper in Journal of... Continue Reading →
The recent update for Windows 10 enabled a feature that I’m sure has gone unnoticed by many: You can now install a native linux terminal in Windows. Who cares? I hear you ask. Well, I’ll be writing up guides on some open source software soon, and using Bash on Windows 10 is waaaaay easier than... Continue Reading →
**update 21/2/19: Not only has Dremel moved to a waaay better slicing software (based on Cura), but the latest firmware (v1.5, 20180611) has enabled standard *.gcode support for the 3D20 model. Finally...** Last year I got hold of a Dremel Idea Builder 3D printer. It’s been great, and I’ve been able to print a... Continue Reading →
I've been struggling to find the time to get blog posts out recently. Luckily, I have a morning to do just that! Sauropod tracks First up, we have 'Digit-only sauropod pes trackways from China – evidence of swimming or a preservational phenomenon?' by Lida Xing and a number of colleagues including myself, published in Nature Scientific... Continue Reading →
New paper out today in Biology Letters led by Chris Basu and with John Hutchinson, both from the Royal Vet College. Sivatherium is an extinct Giraffid from the Plio-Pleistocene boundary (~2.5 million years ago), found near the foothills of what is today (and indeed basically was then…) the Himalayas. It’s an interesting beasty that has... Continue Reading →
Prof. Peter L. Falkingham 