Category Archives: Khaan

Photogrammetry tutorial 8: scaling “with hindsight”

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

Recently, I mentioned in passing that I took some photographs of specimens at the AMNH in New York so that I could better scale models I had calculated from photographs taken during my previous visit. Here’s how that worked out, … Continue reading →

Posted in AMNH, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, Khaan, Maniraptora, Oviraptorosauridae, photogrammetry, Theropoda | 8 Comments

AMNH Feb 2015

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

A short while ago I paid a rather unexpected and sudden visit to the AMNH in New York. American Museum of Natural History – that name stands for one of the greatest museums in the world, and it has much … Continue reading →

Posted in AMNH, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosauria, Khaan, Maniraptora, Oviraptorosauridae, photogrammetry, photography, Theropoda, Travels, Tyrannosauridae, Tyrannosaurus | 12 Comments

PHOTOGRAMMETRY IN PALEONTOLOGY – A PRACTICAL GUIDE

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Heinrich Mallison

While I was on holiday my latest paper finally went online. It is a joint effort with Oliver Wings that details some good approaches for photogrammetric 3D modelling specimens. You can find the PDF at this link. The web version … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, AMNH, Conferences, DigitalSpecimen 2014, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosaur models, How to, Khaan, Maniraptora, Open Access publishing, Oviraptorosauridae, papers, photogrammetry, photography, Theropoda | 5 Comments

AMNH visit 2013 Part 2: more Oviraptors

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Khaan again. Yes, 3.4 million points for this alone. I guess it will by about 2.5 million points once I have cropped things down to the fossil. And that is MEDIUM density 🙂 What this model shows clearly is that … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, AMNH, Citipati, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosauria, Khaan, Maniraptora, Oviraptorosauridae, photogrammetry, Theropoda | 7 Comments

AMNH visit 2013 Part 1: Oviraptor photogrammetry

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Pretty much everybody know IGM100/1127, the holotype of Khaan mckennai. Today, I get to study this beautiful specimen a bit. The first thing to do is a HR photogrammetric model. I ran the alignment and did a medium density model … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, AMNH, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosauria, Khaan, Maniraptora, Oviraptorosauridae, photogrammetry, Theropoda | 5 Comments

Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 1.2

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Heinrich Mallison

Continuing from here, let me show you some more of the wonderful dinosaurs at AMNH. If you picture-google “AMNH dinosaur” you’ll get a lot of results showing Tyrannosaurus, Deinonychus, Triceratops, Anatotitan, and Apatosaurus. Other stuff is rarer, even the beautiful … Continue reading →

Posted in AMNH, Camarasaurus, Hadrosauridae, Khaan, Maniraptora, Ornithischa, Oviraptorosauridae, Protoceratops, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Travels | 7 Comments