What do you do if you do n’t have abreathtaking room full of ancient bones and fossils ? You get yourself a 3D printer and start download files fromAfrican Fossils , an online archive of prehistoric East African artifacts . No pith helmet required .
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With over40 digitized fossilsin their collection , you may explore 3D renders of fossils represent prehistoric animals , human root , and even ancient tools . capture using Autodesk software , an SLR camera , and often the original specimen ( rather than a cast reproduction ) , these interpretation bring us closer than most will ever get to holding ancient artifacts . And if you ’ve got an linear fabricate twist at your disposition , you could evendownload plans on Sketchfabto bring forth your own . Take a tone !
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There ’s something funnily liven about the notion that modern applied science and the baron of the internet can let you concord a strikingly exact replica of a 20 - million - year - honest-to-goodness fossil in your hand . It ’s not the first time accurate representations of ancient artifacts have been 3D - printed — Cornell ’s Hod Lipson has experimented with3D - printing cuneiform tablets , and Harvard ’s Semitic Museum beganrepairing some of its artefact with 3D printers last year — but , whether you ’re a serious bonehead or just nonchalantly peculiar , flip through the verandah and take a look at how far we ’ve come . [ H / TRon Golan/@sketchfab ]
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