1. Richard P. Hulser, Chief Librarian
Natural History Museum Los Angeles County
University ofToronto Symposium July 25, 2013
Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory: www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0237/

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*Traditional way – sculpting, modifying and casting
*New way – scanning, modifying, printing in less time and
higher accuracy

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*Fast turnaround from scan to displayable copy
*Scaling – up or down
*Example: Archaeopteryx wings
Print from 3D scan
Test printed object in wind tunnel
No harm to specimen yet detailed configuration
accuracy

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*Paleoparadoxiid
*Molding, Casting
*Scanning
*3D Printing

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*T-Rex sensory gland in skull

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*28,000 year old bees in La Brea
Tarpits
*3D CT microscan (borrowed
from U. Southern California)
*Revealed male and female bees
in separate nest cells
*Species tolerate specific
environment
*PLAN:
Print bees larger to enable
better examination by
researchers

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*Small mummy casing
*Thought to be a bird
*Mummy casing not cut
*Scan revealed partial set
of cat bones
Cat mummy offering

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*Permission to scan and prototype items in
private hands
➪Research can’t do other ways
*Ownership protection
➪Who owns 3D scan or model created from
it?
*Authentication verification of 3D scan file
critical

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*Software usability – CAD software challenge to learn
and use
*Makerbot affordable 3D printing leader
 Sold to larger company Stratasys so not independent
anymore.
 Could impact pricing and technological availability or
advancements

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*CT Microscan rare and fragile publications
*Create digital representation
*Print facsimile for closer physical inspection
*Example: 16th century monographs too delicate to open for
scanning
*Brittle 19th & 20th century newspapers
*Build on digitisation projects:
1990s scans of General Archives of the Indies Seville Spain (IBM);
http://en.www.mcu.es/archivos/MC/AGI/index.html
West Semitic Research Project (University of Southern California)
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/information/

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*Luis Chiappe, Vice President, Research & Collections
*Giar-Ann Kung, Assistant Collections Manager, Entomology
*Howell Thomas, Lab Manager, Vertebrate Paleontology
*Justin Hall, Research Associate, Vertebrate Paleontology
*Vanessa Rhue, Assistant Collections Manager, Vertebrate Paleontology
*Xiaoming Wang, Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology