Towards high-throughput 3D insect capture for species discovery and diagnostics

no code implementations • 7 Sep 2017 • Chuong Nguyen, Matt Adcock, Stuart Anderson, David Lovell, Nicole Fisher, John La Salle

Digitisation of natural history collections not only preserves precious information about biological diversity, it also enables us to share, analyse, annotate and compare specimens to gain new insights.

Diversity Mixed Reality +1

Capturing natural-colour 3D models of insects for species discovery

no code implementations • 7 Sep 2017 • Chuong V. Nguyen, David R. Lovell, Matt Adcock, John La Salle

While these traditional kinds of descriptions are informative and useful, they cannot cover insect specimens "from all angles" and precious specimens are still exchanged between researchers and collections for this reason.