Digitizing large fossil skeletal elements for three-dimensional applications

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Wilhite, Ray ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer; Digitizing; Methods; Microscribe; Sauropod; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

SAUROPODA;

EID: 3042689595     PISSN: 10948074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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