Category Archives: Stegosauria

Digitizing entire dinosaurs 1 (digiS 2016)

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Heinrich Mallison

Last year I received funding to digitize a lot of big bones of the Tendaguru collection from the Museum für Naturkunde’s Bone Cellar. This year, I was lucky to again secure funding from the digiS programme. This time, it’s for … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, Berlin, Dicraeosaurus, digiS, Digitizing, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, Diplodocus, Elaphrosaurus, FUN!!!, Giraffatitan, Kentrosaurus, MfN Berlin, Ornithischa, photogrammetry, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Stegosauria, Tendaguru, Theropoda | 3 Comments

3D digitizing black, shiny bones

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

I know you all wait for news on Tristan, the Tyrannosaurus rex that will soon grace the exhibition spaces of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. I know, and I understand, and I feel with you. Really, I do. But…. see … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, Conferences, Digitizing, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, Kentrosaurus, MfN Berlin, Ornithischa, Stegosauria, SVP 2014, Theropoda, Tristan, Tyrannosauridae, Tyrannosaurus | 15 Comments

Less than 4 minutes to 3D digitize a large bone! (digiS project)

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

It’s been quiet here recently, and as is usually the case my work load is to blame. It’s not just that there is way more work than time to do it, but that I am currently doing a bunch of … Continue reading →

Posted in digiS, Digitizing, Dinosauria, Giraffatitan, Kentrosaurus, MfN Berlin, Ornithischa, photogrammetry, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Stegosauria | 13 Comments

My awesome digiS project: mass digitizing sauropod bones

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

Last year I applied for a grant from the Senatskanzlei Berlin for the 2015 digiS funding programme. digiS is a state-wide (i.e. Berlin-wide) programme intended to coordinate and support digitizing efforts.They have an about page on their website that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Berlin, Dicraeosaurus, digiS, Digitizing, Dinosauria, Giraffatitan, Kentrosaurus, Ornithischa, photogrammetry, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Stegosauria | 12 Comments

A digital dino bone

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Heinrich Mallison

This post is a re-blog, or more accurately the English translation re-blog (with minor alterations to adapt it to pre-existing content here on dinosaurpalaeo), of a post I wrote for the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin‘s blog Museumsdinge. The title roughly … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, Berlin, Conferences, DigitalSpecimen 2014, Digitizing, Dinosauria, Kentrosaurus, MfN Berlin, Ornithischa, photogrammetry, Stegosauria, SVP 2014 | 3 Comments

Osteoderm distribution does not significantly influence the center of mass of stegosaurs

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Heinrich Mallison

Today, a new paper came out in Fossil Record, a journal that as of Jan 1, 2014 is open access (so go read the paper! It’s free). The paper tests hypotheses about the position of the centre of mass (COM) … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, Biomechanics, classic CAD, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, Kentrosaurus, Ornithischa, papers, Stegosauria, Stegosaurus | 5 Comments

Stegosaur photogrammetry – more WOW!

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch. Last year, I spent a great day at the RBINS (Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences), a day during which I took tons of photos. Of their Iguanodons, of their other dinosaurs, specifically of their Stan … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, Digitizing, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, Ornithischa, photogrammetry, RBINS, Stegosauria, Stegosaurus, Travels | Leave a comment

Unusual perspectives

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

The MFN has a great dinosaur hall – just ask Mike Taylor and Matt Wedel! However, the public is limited to looking at the beasts from the ground. There are upstairs windows, and previously I have taken advantage of their … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinopics, Dinosauria, Diplodocus, Kentrosaurus, MfN Berlin, Ornithischa, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Stegosauria | 8 Comments

Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 5.1: SMA

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Today, let’s check out the Sauriermuseum Aathal! Previously, I already posted pics of their wonderful Camarasaurus specimen “E.T.”, but the SMA has much more to offer. In the words of Martin Sander, head of the Research Group on Sauropod Gigantism, … Continue reading →

Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Dinosauria, Sauriermuseum Aathal, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Stegosauria, Stegosaurus | Leave a comment

more of Urzeit Park

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Back from a blogging hiatus owed to a sinus operation (I’ll live), here’s more on the Urzeit Park. It makes some kind of sense to go through the park era by era, after all that’s how it is structured. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, Diplodocus, Giraffatitan, Kentrosaurus, Ornithischa, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Stegosauria, Theropoda | 18 Comments

Mounting a skeleton: bones or casts?

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

If a museum plans to exhibit a new dinosaur (or fossil mammal) skeleton, the first question that needs to be answered is whether to mount the real fossils, or casts of them. In some cases, the decision is fairly easy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinosauria, Kentrosaurus, Maniraptora, MfN Berlin, Ornithischa, Stegosauria, Theropoda | 31 Comments

The MFN Berlin 1: Introduction

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Heinrich Mallison

The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, my host institution, is one of the Big Five natural history museums in the world. And whereas the other four on the list, the AMNH, NMNH, NHM and MNHN, are well known to most people … Continue reading →

Posted in "Prosauropoda", Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Aves, Dicraeosaurus, Dinosauria, Diplodocus, Elaphrosaurus, Giraffatitan, Iguanodontia, Kentrosaurus, MfN Berlin, Ornithopoda, Plateosaurus, Pterosauria, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Stegosauria, Theropoda | 3 Comments

Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 4.2: More SMA dig

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Heinrich Mallison

Previously, I showed a total of the digsite as it was roughly at middle of my stay at the Sauriermuseum’s dig season 2003. It is the Howe-Stephens-Quarry, a scant 100 meters I guess from the Howe Quarry, but situated some … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinosauria, Ornithischa, Sauriermuseum Aathal, Stegosauria, Stegosaurus, Travels | 3 Comments

Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 4: The SMA’s dig in Wyoming 1

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Heinrich Mallison

During my great US trip in 2003 I visited many museums and spent a lot of time camping in the Rockies, Shoshone National Forest, Yellowstone, and many other places. The highlight, however, was volunteering at the dinosaur dig of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Camarasaurus, Dinosauria, landscapes, non-palaeo, Ornithischa, Sauriermuseum Aathal, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Stegosauria, Stegosaurus, Theropoda, Travels | 7 Comments

Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 3.2: Denver 2

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Heinrich Mallison

OK, so aside from Ken Carpenter pulling remains of a brutalized Allosaurus and the perpetrator’s weapon out of a drawer at me, what else is there to say about the Denver Museum of Nature and Science? First of all I … Continue reading →

Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Dinosauria, DMNS, Hadrosauridae, Mammalia, Ornithischa, Stegosauria, Theropoda, Travels | 1 Comment