Princeton Geoscientists Create 'Virtual tour' of Cloudina Fossils (VIDEO)
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With an industrial grinder and a super-high-resolution camera usually used for wedding photography, Princeton geoscientists Adam Maloof and Akshay Mehra can deconstruct rock samples and create three-dimensional digital versions that scientists can look at from any angle. In addition, they have developed software that allows the computer to segment images and isolate objects without human bias. This reconstruction of a Cloudina fossil hash was created after Mehra trained a neural network to distinguish fossils from surrounding stone, so he could produce this model showing only the fossil tubes.
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Courtesy of Akshay Mehra and Adam Maloof, Princeton University Department of Geosciences
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