{"id":142059993479,"date":"2020-03-20T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/blogs\/community\/?p=142059993479"},"modified":"2020-03-18T13:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:01:16","slug":"museo-de-la-platas-vertebrate-paleontology-division-3d-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/blogs\/community\/museo-de-la-platas-vertebrate-paleontology-division-3d-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Museo de La Plata’s Vertebrate Paleontology Division 3D Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"

About Us<\/h2>\n

The La Plata Museum is one of the most important museums in Latin America hosting innumerable specimens of both extant and fossil organisms. Within it, scientific activities are developed both for research and for the preparation of materials (taxidermy, assembly, tracing, preparation and cleaning of fossils, maintenance of collections, just to mention a few). The museum is located in La Plata city, capital city of Buenos Aires province. The building is surrounded by Ginkgo biloba<\/em>, eucalyptus, and araucaria trees, and located in front of the zoo and the observatory of the Faculty of Astronomy.<\/p>\n

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Within the museum, the different scientific activities are distributed into divisions according to their study object and the collections preserved. They range over a wide thematic scope, including several anthropological and natural science disciplines, such as archaeology, geology, zoology, etc. One of the divisions is the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, which is a legacy of the dedication and work of Rosendo Pascual. This division consists of more than forty people working in all the vertebrate taxonomic groups, including researchers, PhD students, technicians, and enthusiastic collaborators. The diverse staff, along with a wide collection of fossil vertebrates that include more than 5000 specimens and historical holotypes, make this division one of the largest paleontology workgroups in the world. Recently, a project directed by the chief of the division, Eduardo P. Tonni, has allowed us to build a 3D scanning and printing laboratory for the division with the aim of progressively digitizing the collection.<\/p>\n

The Lab<\/h2>\n

The laboratory was created for the 3D digitization of fossil specimens from the collection, as well as the printing of high-quality 3D replicas. It operates under the project “Three-dimensional studies in fossil vertebrates<\/em>“, financed by the PICT-E 2014<\/a>, and with the collaboration of the National University of La Plata and the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of La Plata.<\/p>\n

Our Scans<\/h2>\n

For the digitization of materials, the laboratory has two NextEngine HD<\/a> scanners that use laser triangulation with an accuracy of 100 microns in Macro mode and 300 microns in Wide mode. These scanners have several interesting features, such as being portable, not having a maximum scan size (large scans can be done in parts and then joined), and offering very complete and user-friendly assembly and post-processing of the scans.<\/p>\n\n\t\t