Street View for Art
Yet another cool project from Google. The I’d like to see the California Academy of Sciences’s collection in person. It reminds me of a National Science Foundation grant I worked on. The primary investigator, Callum Ross at the University of Chicago, needed CT images of primate skulls to model how they chew. The idea was to show how the available diet was an evolutionary force to change their skull/jaw structure. I scanned about 50 skulls in two days. The skulls were on loan from The Field Museum, which has an impressive collection and does research as well.
You can read more here:
Evolutionary forces – Working Together
I’ve also worked with the Oriental Institute
Eye of Horus post:
Mummy bird images from JP:
h/t Yonatan Zunger
Originally shared by Google Arts & Culture
Today, we’re glad to announce the launch of the new 3D feature on the Google Cultural Institute website: http://goo.gl/1p93XR
You can now admire hundreds of multi-dimensional objects from our six pilot partners’ collections, from the extensive set of animal skulls of the California Academy of Sciences (http://goo.gl/xQyk3F) to the Oldest Mask in the world at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem(http://goo.gl/HtGFhy). #3D #artstech