Repaired Blaschka Octopus

3D Model

Model SC380 of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Collection of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates. This is an ~8-inch glass model of an Octopus, Octopus fontanianus, found in the South Pacific. 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 Originally made as educational models, they are now in collections in over 50 institutions around the world.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 287 photographs taken at the Harvard MCZ. The photogrammetry processing was done with Agisoft Photoscan and minor touch-up was applied in Blender. (3D model # SC380 ALL-1-modelc-large). The glass model was broken and the upper arm to the left in the snapshot is missing. An arm was cloned to replace it digitally in Blender.