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  1. For the last year I have been playing around with a variety of methods to create 3D models of my fossil collection. The end goal being to have my fossils available to other collectors all over the world to print their own on a 3D printer as I don't sell or send fossils out of New Zealand. My models can be downloaded for free: https://sketchfab.com/mamlambofossils If you want to print them and sell them, go for it! Just email me about it first so I know about it. My 3D printer is a Creality Ender 3 V2 Neo ($300 USD, $570 NZD) which is quite an entry level printer but I am getting great results. Photogrammetry I've tried out a number of free and paid for apps and found Reality Capture (https://www.capturingreality.com/) to give the best results. The payment model is that you pay per model you export. So you can generate as many as you want to, but to export it and share, you have to pay. I found it worked out to about $2 - $4 per model. Between 3D scanners and photogrammetry, photogrammetry gives you the best texture (not important for printing), but is WAY slower than a 3D scanner. 3D Scanning The RevoPoint Mini (https://www.revopoint3d.com/ - $960 USD) was a 3D scanner I backed on Kickstarter and I use this for scanning smaller objects as it has a very high resolution of 0.02mm. It's got a big brother, the POP 2 which I have as well, which is for larger objects. The software isn't as good as that of the MagicSwift and it can lose tracking easier if the fossil isn't on a turntable. The Revopoint scanners give a good texture and I used them to scan these models: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/plesiosaur-vertebra-from-new-zealand-b7ea650cc2f34177af9cce5ad9a442b5 (plesiosaur vert) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/unknown-species-of-fossil-shell-from-new-zealand-512ac1cb27724fcab2350259e65bf195 (shell which photogrammetry couldn't handle because of the hollow section and broken bit) I got a MagicSwift Plus 3D scanner sent to me to and I found this to be the fastest option for scanning a fossil, I could get an object scanned and uploaded to Sketchfab.com within 20 mins, much faster than photogrammetry which can take an entire afternoon. It offers two options for the texture, a greyscale (fastest) or using a smartphone to capture photos and then lay it over the model. This usually gave good results but I also had some issues on one model where I had to redo it. It's about $1000 USD. https://store.3dmakerpro.com/products/magicswift-plus-3d-scanner If I was visiting a museum and wanted to make as many 3D models as I could in a short time, this would be my choice. Especially if the models were for printing where color and texture don't matter. Models I scanned with the MagicSwift: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/plesiosaurus-bone-cluster-new-zealand-611c6146581043cf8b5b4920f731d21a (plesiosaur vert cluster) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/late-miocene-fossil-penguin-in-concretion-57ccc2aff7d44a3091d80370e6eada4c (penguin) Below is a video of me unboxing the MagicSwift and scanning a crab: My latest project is to print a life size Little Bush Moa from 3D models created by Daniel Thomas (Auckland Museum, Massey University). It's the smallest of the moa so I thought it would be quite a cool project to get into. Here are some of the leg bones I have printed so far. Here is a time-lapse of me printing one of the femurs. It took 20 hours: Drybrushing Anyone that has painted miniatures will be familiar with the drybrushing technique. I paint the model in black acrylic and then use drybrushing (removing most of the paint from the brush) to add highlights. Using this technique you can get really realistic results. The layers visible in this model was because I printed the crab horizontally instead of vertically - oops! I've since learnt not to do that!
  2. High-tech tools reveal opalized fossil skeleton by Flinders University, August 29, 202 Absolute gem of a find: Opalised dinosaur fossil studied using innovative 3D printing technology. The rare fossils may represent a new Australian dinosaur species Cosmos Magazine, August 29, 2022 Dinosaur Bones Shimmering With Opal Reveal a New Species in Australia A discovery in an Australian opal mine remained unexamined for three decades—it turned out to be the most complete opalized dinosaur skeleton in the world, Gemma Conroy, Smithsonian,June 3, 2019 “Opalized” Dinosaur Skeleton Discovered 30 Years Ago, Now Scientists Have Named the Species. One man was hunting gems and found a load of natural history instead. Rose Heichelbech, Dusty Ol Thing Bell, P.R., Brougham, T., Herne, M.C., Frauenfelder, T. and Smith, E.T., 2019. Fostoria dhimbangunmal, gen. et sp. nov., a new iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the mid- Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39(1), p.e1564757. Yours, Paul H.
  3. I finally completed the reorder of my collection of fossils and minerals. It is a wooden hexagonal display cabinet of several wood/glass shelf; in the pictures attached I only show some of them. I 3D printed more than 20 custom drawer compartments for the smallest specimens. I decided to go for a modular design, so I can adapt every compartment to the specimen. As printing material, I used a "wood PLA" filament 3D printed with 1 mm nozzle on the Alfawise U20 3D printer. LINK I finally added a strip LED inside the cabinet door and powered it via a USB power-bank - so it is fully wireless. In this picture you can see some of my recent purchases: Two Sinosauridae indet. teeth from Kem Kem One Acheroraptor tooth from Hell Creek formation, Powder River Co., Montana Some Mosasaurus teeth from Kem Kem One Pterosaurs tooth from Kem Kem A piece of Rhinocerontidae indet. jaw from South Dakota Some ammonites, shark teeth, a Flexicalymene ouzregui, a couple of echinoids (I found the white one in a brick!); the Velociraptor skull is 3D printed as well. This is the other side. The big sand echinoid was also found by me in a brick! On the right there's a nice fossil coral: I never seen something similar, please let me know if you know it's name. Three fossil fishes and a nice ammonites cluster with some quartz in the background. At the end, some minerals... Now I only have to finish the cataloging of all specimen. I already finished with fossils, now I have to start with minerals - it will be very looong! What do you think? Do you like it? Ciao!
  4. I am not sure how niche of a topic this will end up being and if anyone other than myself will really post on here, but I thought that it still might be worth a try. I really enjoy 3D modeling and printing as a hobby and find that it often comes in handy when dealing with certain problems around collecting, organizing, displaying of fossils. Some of these designs I have come up with myself while others have been heavily inspired by other people's projects and I thought that creating a single place to share all my 3D prints related to this may be helpful or inspiring to others. So here are some of the models I've created and found quite useful for my collection, as always any forum members are free to message me and I will be happy to share any of these files with you: Microfossil slides, I think outside of some simple stands these may have been the first items like this I designed and printed. These have been quite useful as I can print these whenever I am sorting through some micromatrix and always have room for my micros instead of having to buy expensive slides and waiting for them to ship. This is my most recent print and it's a small universal stand for all my slides to keep them organized, it works with the printed ones, metal ones, injection molded plastic and just glass thin sections. Scale cubes, probably the most useful of all of these as I take many pictures of my fossils and having this as a reference with both metric and imperial units is great. and here are some of these mounts and hooks I designed. I just got some new shelving for my collection and each shelf this sort of beam behind it, this was a great way to mount some of my riker displays and larger flat specimens to reduce the space they take up on the shelf itself. If anyone has any other designs like this they have made with 3D printing, or other similar technologies like CNC that you'd like to share, it would be great to see some of them here to learn and get ideas or inspiration for our own projects. Thanks for looking!
  5. I recently got started sculpting digitally, and with this new hammer I am now excitedly looking for nails! My thoughts turned to some of my microfossils, specifically some of my really old shark teeth. Microfossils in general are difficult to appreciate without a microscope, so I figured it would be fun to sculpt a few. My first subject is a Devonian Phoebodont shark tooth that I thought looked neat enough. Besides being some of the oldest teeth I know of (380-390 Ma), they look very different from the teeth of modern sharks (except for those of the frilled shark). Most of the teeth are broken, but I luckily had enough fragments to get a good picture of what a complete tooth looked like. With these fossils as my reference I quickly squashed and shaped a chunk of virtual clay into a passable shark tooth: And thanks to the wonders of today's technology, I can actually share that model directly in an interactive manner: I didn't do so much work on the bottom since I intended to 3D print it. And after warming up the printer and waiting for 3 hours... I was able to do all this in an evening. I'm hoping to do more possibly throughout the Summer as my time and inspiration allow. There are a couple of other sharks I had in mind, but I'm open to crowd-sourcing suggestions/requests.
  6. Print your own Geological Compass. Triantafyllou, A., 2021. Print Your Compass: Using 3D Printed Geological Compasses for Teaching and Research Purposes. GSA Today. vol. 32, no. 1, pp.52-54 https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/groundwork/G523GW/GSATG523GW.pdf https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Publications/GSA_Today/features/GSA/GSAToday/groundwork/G523GW/article.aspx?_zs=oP0Ob1&_zl=dGa68 Yours, Paul H.
  7. 3D Printed Fossil Replicas Reveal Lifestyle Of Ancient Cephalopods by David Bressan, Forbes Magazine, July 18, 2021 The paper is: Peterman DJ, and Ritterbush KA. 2021. Vertical escape tactics and movement potential of orthoconic cephalopods. PeerJ 9:e11797 Yours, Paul H.
  8. Ancient Ammonoids’ Complex Shell Designs May Have Aided Buoyancy Control University of Utah, April 13, 2021 Peterman, D.J., Ritterbush, K.A., Ciampaglio, C.N. et al., 2021, Buoyancy control in ammonoid cephalopods refined complex internal shell architecture. Science Reports 11, 8055 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87379-5 Yours, Paul H.
  9. Hello TFF, I have been interested in micropalaeontology for a bit, especially after @Shamalama sent me some wonderful micro matrix samples along with slides for micropalaeontology. The tiny organisms like ostracods, conodonts, bryozoans and crinoids are so amazing and getting to see them under the microscope is very special. However, I have been limited in my ability to collect these fossils due to a lack of these slides, I got two from Dave which were beautiful and very helpful but similar ones online cost quite a bit, especially since most were from outside the US. For a while, I put this on hold and didn't expand my micro collection because of this but a couple of days ago I saw someone selling 3d printed slides on the auction site and this inspired me to make my own. I thought it would be a nice and quick solution and I can always just make more as I needed them. I took some measurements of the glass slides I had on hand and quickly threw together a model, This first one you cannot see in the photo below because the gaps for the glass to slide into ended up being just too narrow and my slide got stuck in it so I had to melt away the plastic and break it to retrieve it. The second one I decided to alter the model and increase both the height and width of the gap by .5 mm, this ended up being way too big and the slides just fell out. This is the slide you see at the top of the photo. Next, instead of tampering with the original model I just kept all the proportions and increased the size to 100.5%, this ended up being a perfect fit and would allow the glass to slide in and out while keeping it secure when needed, this is the middle slide you see in the photo, these early prototypes were done in red because this is the plastic I had the most of. Finally to finish the model up, I added a cutout in the side to allow you to remove the glass easier and without covering it in fingerprints and started printing it in black. You can see the final version at the bottom of the photo These slides are fully customizable, I can make the hole in them any shape that I would want, currently I am thinking about making a version with multiple circular compartments. I could probably even add some writing on the space in the front or on the back of the slide. I am not sure if there are any other interesting or helpful changes I can make to the model, I am open to suggestions so please tell me if you have any. I just wanted to share this little project with everyone, maybe it will get someone inspired to make something similar or perhaps someone will just find it interesting. Also if anyone wants it, I would love to share the files to these for anyone wanting to print some yourself, they should fit the standard glass slides for microscopes. Send me a PM if you are interested.
  10. I recently created this set of micropaleontology themed drink coasters. When stacked, the coaster set resembles a geological core sample, containing fossils ranging from the present day to 1500 Ma. For anyone with access to a 3d printer, the cad files can be freely downloaded here: https://sketchfab.com/taylorcustom/collections If anyone has requests for other such projects, I welcome suggestions!
  11. After the Velociraptor skull, I finally finished another very long project: the baby T. rex skull designed by Inhuman Species, a 3D printed museum quality fossil replica of a 2-3 years old Tyrannosaurus rex. I really love this project and I made a video of the making from the 3D printing to the painting - I hope you like it. If you're wondering, I 3D printed the skull with the Alfawise U30 in PLA plastic; please watch the video and turn on subtitles to learn more about the tools and the making processes. If your're addicted or interested in 3D printing, you can't miss those topics:
  12. Wilson, Paul, Williams, M. A. (Mark A.), Warnett, Jason M., Attridge, Alex, Ketchum, H., Hay, J. and Smith, M. P. (2017) Utilizing X-Ray Computed Tomography for heritage conservation : the case of megalosaurus bucklandii. In: I2MTC 2017 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Torino, Italy, 22-25 May 2017 (In Press) https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82960130.pdf http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/88534/ Yours, Paul H.
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