Use of Hand-held Laser Scanning and 3D Printing for Creation of a Museum Exhibit.

摘要: Biological anthropology as a discipline continues to be holistic in both its approaches understanding research problems and borrowing of methods from many related disciplines. More more, digital imaging is becoming an integral part data acquisition analysis biological anthropological research. With new emerging technologies, however, these techniques are also now contributing even more dissemination. One the newest tools 3D object printing. Stereolithography has seen limited use, but costs often prohibitive. New developments printing have begun make this technology available osteological studies. Here we discuss use laser scanning re-create human skeletal remains for museum exhibit. A Polhemus scanner used capture geometry shape individual bones. The point clouds then edited exported STL files on Z-Corp Z406 printer. recreated bones incorporated into exhibit, yielding accurate realistic depiction original skeleton. An overview challenges associated with project successful completion discussed context role bioarchaeological