Title :
Visualization in anthropology: reconstruction of human fossils from multiple pieces
Author :
Kalvin, Alan D. ; Dean, David ; Hublin, Jean-Jacques ; Braun, Marc
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
A new way of reconstructing human fossils from fragmentary fossil material is described. Unlike the traditional method of making physical models using clay, this new approach is based on geometrical modeling and visualization of digitized fossil data. It can provide anthropologists with both quantifiable, computer-based geometric models and physical plastic reconstructions of fossils
Keywords :
anthropology; computer graphics; anthropology; computer-based geometric models; digitized fossil data; geometrical modeling; human fossils; multiple pieces; physical plastic reconstructions; Anatomy; Bones; Data visualization; Hospitals; Humans; Morphology; Physics computing; Plastics; Solid modeling; Surgery;
Conference_Titel :
Visualization, 1992. Visualization '92, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2897-9
DOI :
10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235179
