Dear colleagues, On behalf of lead author Duncan Irschick, I am happy to announce the publication of a new review paper in iScience. The methods presented can be used to create 3D models of animals for outreach purposes, but also to study body condition/scaling, computational fluids dynamics and more.
Irschick, D.J., Christiansen, F., Hammerschlag, N., Martin, J., Madsen, P.T., Wyneken, J., Brooks, A., Gleiss, A., Fossette, S., Siler, C., Gamble, T., Fish, F., Siebert, U., Patel, J., Kaleogerkis, V., Xu, Z., Medina, J., Mukherji, A., Mandica, M., Zotos, S., Detweiller, J., Perot, B. & Lauder, G. 2022. Re-imagining the Shape of Life: New 3D Visualization Processes for Recreating Organismal Form. iScience 25: 104867. Abstract: The study of biological form is a vital goal of evolutionary biology and functional morphology. We review an emerging set of methods that allow scientists to create and study accurate 3D models of living organisms and animate those models for biomechanical and fluid dynamic analyses. The methods for creating such models include 3D photogrammetry, laser and CT scanning, and 3D software. New multi-camera devices can be used to create accurate 3D models of living animals in the wild and captivity. New websites and virtual reality/augmented reality devices now enable the visualization and sharing of these data. We provide examples of these approaches for animals ranging from large whales to lizards and show applications for several areas: Natural history collections; body condition/scaling, bioinspired robotics, computational fluids dynamics (CFD), machine learning, and education. We provide two datasets to demonstrate the efficacy of CFD and machine learning approaches and conclude with a prospectus. The paper can be accessed and downloaded from the following link: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(22)01139-7 Best regards, Fredrik Christiansen Assistant Professor Zoophysiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University C.F. Møllers Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark f.christian...@bio.au.dk http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=vkA5Y3EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fredrik_Christiansen3/?ev=hdr_xprf
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