Model SC-369 of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Collection of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates. This glass model is one of thousands made by Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka in the late 1800s as educational models. The EOL page (http://eol.org/pages/448835/overview) states that this species of Cuttlefish (labeled by the Blaschkas as Sepia bisserialis, but currently known as Sepia elegans), never larger than about 3.5 inches, is found in the Mediterranean and in the Eastern Atlantic from Scotland in the north to the west coast of Africa in the south. Made from 365 photos using Agisoft Photoscan. For this cuttlefish the dorsal surface was made of painted paper. This thin surface posed a challenge for the photogrammetry alignment and required careful masking of the photos prior to processing. The glass model is missing the left tentacle; it was replaced digitally in Blender. Four sets of material properties were assigned to the dorsal area, the remainder of the body, the tentacle and the eyes.
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