http://strangelyentangled.com Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:04:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://strangelyentangled.com/2008/04/02/printing-ancient-insects-in-3d/ http://strangelyentangled.com/2008/04/02/printing-ancient-insects-in-3d/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:42:43 +0000 Mike http://www.strangelyentangled.com/?p=28 This is pretty damn cool. A researcher at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France is using a form of X-ray radiography and micro-tomography to image insects caught in ancient blocks of amber. But why stop there? Micro-tomographic imaging allows them to create three dimensional computer models of these insects. The researcher then fed this data into a 3D printer and created larger-than-life 3D physical models of each insect!

 

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