Thylacine Mesh Model (IMAGE)

Monash University

Thylacine Mesh Model

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Building and weighing a digital thylacine. The 3D scanned skeleton (lop left) were surrounded by digital "convex hulls" (top right), which then had their volume and mass calculated. The skeletons were then used in digitally sculpting life-life models (bottom left), each given their own unique stripes (bottom right).

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(C) Douglass Rovinsky

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