W5. Virtual palaeontology techniques
Organiser: Mark Sutton
Organiser: Mark Sutton
In recent years there have been rapid advances in three-dimensional imaging techniques, including laser-scanning, physical-optical tomography, neutron tomography, optical tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, x-ray tomography, holotomography and laminography. The increasing availability and quality of these data-capture techniques is rivalled by the increasing ease with which modern computers and software can reconstruct, view and manipulate the resulting datasets; the 'virtual fossils' thus created provide a new and powerful medium for working with palaeontological material. Details of data-capture, reconstruction techniques and the applications of virtual palaeontology will all be discussed in this workshop.