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    1. primusinterspinas: solutreantoolkit: So 3D printing is pretty sweet. These fantastic photographs of a 2.5 million year old human skull were provided by our good friend Gonzalo Martinez, Director of the Strategic Research Office of the CTO over at Autodesk, working with the famous archaeologist Louise Leakey, over in Kenya. He printed the 3D skull model by first scanning the real thing on a Faro LLP scanner. This took about 30 minutes. Once scanned, the 3D image was then sent to the Objet Connex500 for printing, using Objet’s new transparent VeroClear material to produce this very smooth ‘ice-like’ effect. I wish they would have identified the skulls that were 3D printed though. I’m a little rough on my morphology but I think the skulls are paranthropus. I’m almost certain that is a recreation of the “Black Skull,” a specimen of Paranthropus aethiopicus. You’re definitely right in that it is a robust Australopithecine (Paranthropus). That’s what I was thinking, that it was the Black Skull.

      primusinterspinas:

      solutreantoolkit:

      So 3D printing is pretty sweet.

      These fantastic photographs of a 2.5 million year old human skull were provided by our good friend Gonzalo Martinez, Director of the Strategic Research Office of the CTO over at Autodesk, working with the famous archaeologist Louise Leakey, over in Kenya. He printed the 3D skull model by first scanning the real thing on a Faro LLP scanner. This took about 30 minutes. Once scanned, the 3D image was then sent to the Objet Connex500 for printing, using Objet’s new transparent VeroClear material to produce this very smooth ‘ice-like’ effect.

      I wish they would have identified the skulls that were 3D printed though. I’m a little rough on my morphology but I think the skulls are paranthropus.

      I’m almost certain that is a recreation of the “Black Skull,” a specimen of Paranthropus aethiopicus. You’re definitely right in that it is a robust Australopithecine (Paranthropus).

      That’s what I was thinking, that it was the Black Skull.

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      3. bonedust reblogged this from oldowan and added:
        I don’t think it’s about identification, I think it’s about reproducing the skulls for further study. Anything to make...
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      8. theladygoogle reblogged this from solutreantoolkit and added:
        That, indeed, is a cast of an Australopithecus boisei (or Paranthropus boisei, or if we’re getting really old school,...
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      11. jaraconnell reblogged this from alphacaeli and added:
        I’d recognize that sagittal crest anywhere!
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      14. dakreeeets reblogged this from oldowan and added:
        As cool as this looks, I think I’d actually prefer feeling plastic imitating bone.
      15. solutreantoolkit reblogged this from xoxobwxoxo and added:
        Confirmed Paranthropus aethiopicus.
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      18. xoxobwxoxo reblogged this from oldowan and added:
        i’d think so too based on the sagital keel
      19. owlbearz reblogged this from solutreantoolkit and added:
        BioAnth will haunt me forever
      20. primusinterspinas reblogged this from oldowan and added:
        I’m almost certain that is a recreation of the “Black Skull,” a specimen of Paranthropus aethiopicus. You’re definitely...
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