Blaschka Sea Cucumber

3D Model

Model SC174 of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) Collection of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates. This is a ~ 7-inch glass model of a Sea Cucumber, Sporadipus tremula. The glass model is one of thousands done by the father-and-son team Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka in the late 1800s. Originally made as educational models, they are now in collections in over 50 institutions around the world. Major collections are at Cornell, the Corning Glass Museum, Harvard and University College, Dublin. The 3D model was made from ~200 photographs taken at the MCZ. The photogrammetry processing was done with Agisoft Photoscan and minor touch-up was applied in Blender. (3D model SC174-ALL-every-but Not Close-dec)