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Following my post yesterday, I’ve had an excellent day at The Henry Royce Institute at Manchester University. I’ve been trying to scan a dinosaur skull in a hard nodule, which is proving difficult due the density of the matrix. The scan data is being number crunched over night and hopefully I’ll get to see a 3D rendering of what’s in the nodule. If not then we will put a more powerful X Ray head on the machine and try again in the new year. I also took along an iguanodon braincase from The Isle of Wight. This is the 3D X Ray Tomography Scanner I used. This is the braincase mounted ready for scanning. This is the start of the scan. The dark area is the “brain area”. And the light area is the braincase. The sample is sat on a mount and placed on a table. The table is then slowly rotated whilst numerous x rays are taken. Each scan takes about 4 hours. The data is made up of multiple slices through the sample. The data can then be stacked and manipulated to make 3D models or just show slices at specific points. A very exciting day and it’s a big thank you from me to Tristan and Elizabeth at Henry Royce for all their help. Further work to do.
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The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels): A tour by Ziggycardon
ziggycardon posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
Hi everyone Last Thursday I went to visit the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels as a little pre-birthday trip. I have visited this museum several times in the past few years, but this time I took my camera with me and thought it might be fun to do a photo tour of the museum for this forum Beware, this will be quite a big topic that might take a few days to complete as I took nearly 750 photo's in the museum (a lot will have to be sorted out though due to blurry quality, photo's of only name tags and doubles) as I wanted to show pretty much all fossil displays Especially the Hall of the Dinosaurs, the hall of the Mosasaurs & The Hall of Evolution will be quite complete tours Starting off with some snapshots of the hall of the minerals. The meteorite display room- 63 replies
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