SPIERS and VAXML; A software toolkit for tomographic visualisation and a format for virtual specimen interchange

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Sutton, Mark D ^a   Garwood, Russell J ^b   Siveter, David J ^c   Siveter, Derek J ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Infrastructure; Three dimensional; Tomography; VAXML; Virtual fossils

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEONTOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SOFTWARE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84867247940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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