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Watanabe <[email protected]> -----
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013
11:46:45 -0400
From: Aki Watanabe <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Aki Watanabe <[email protected]>
Subject: Re:
Microscribe 3DX
To: [email protected]
Dear
all,
If you are looking to purchase a
microscribe, I would contact gomeasure3d (via gomeasure3d.com) and inquire about their lab/academic package,
which includes the Microscribe G2X (although you could upgrade to the larger
G2LX for additional cost), travel case, and associated software for only $5,995
(~$8,000 value).
Cheers,
Aki
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at
1:18 AM, <[email protected]>
wrote:
----- Forwarded message from "Scott, Jill E" <[email protected]> -----
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:52:38 -0400
From: "Scott, Jill E" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: "Scott, Jill E" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Microscribe 3DX
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>I have used both the G2X MicroScribe and the NextEngine laser scanner for morphometric data acquisition. While it generally takes less time to collect data on each specimen with a MicroScribe, the NextEngine provides the entire surface scan, so you can conceivably continue to collect data from each scan for future projects. I have only used the NextEngine Scanner ($2,995) with the ScanStudio HD Pro software ($995), as I have been told that the HD Pro software significantly decreases the time it takes to scan each specimen, although I have not directly compared the HD Pro and the standard ScanStudio HD software myself. You can find out more at the website: http://www.nextengine.com/.
To collect (semi)landmark data from the laser scans, I currently use the UC Davis software Landmark Editor which you can find out more about and download (for free) here: http://graphics.idav.ucdavis.edu/research/EvoMorph. With this program you can place landmarks as individual points or curves or patches and then export the landmark data in the same coordinate column format as is used with programs such as Morphologika, MorphoJ, and R.So for the price and the flexibility of what you can do with the scans once you have them, I'm moving in the direction of the NextEngine Scanner, but MicroScribes can still potentially be more useful depending on the nature of the project.-Jill Scott
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Jill E. Scott, MA
AAPA Student Liaison to the Executive Committee
Doctoral Candidate, Biological Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
114 Macbride Hall
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1322 USA
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://clas.uiowa.edu/anthropology/people/jill-scott
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 8:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Microscribe 3DX
----- Forwarded message from Ann <[email protected]> -----
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:35:11 -0400
From: Ann <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Ann <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Microscribe 3DX
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
The price is about half off what it originally cost. The new Microscribes are around $8000 USD. I just purchased a NextEngine scanner for $3000. However, if you are looking to digitize anatomical landmark data- I believe the Miscrosribe is still a better option. I have not been able to figure out how to extract landmark data from the scans yet (like you can from a CT scan)- I'm assuming it would be similar. There are issues with the use of CT extracted data, however.
Ann H. Ross, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
NC State University
http://anthropology.chass.ncsu.edu/forensics/
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On Mar 24, 2013, at 12:52 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Eric Delson <[email protected]> -----
>
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:49:09 -0400
> From: Eric Delson <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Eric Delson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Microscribe 3DX
> To: [email protected]
>
> The Microscribe 3DX was an excellent device in
> the late 1990s and early 2000s (when it cost
> $3000+). I still have 3 in active use, but they
> have been upgraded to the equivalent of a G2,
> which is probably necessary today. That would
> perhaps double your cost (contact
> [email protected] or www.emicroscribe.com
> for one example of a company that used to do
> this). As a result, you would have a good multi-joint-arm digitizer.
> How much more would it cost to buy a Next Engine
> with HD Pro software or a similar small/portable
> surface scanner, which allows you much greater
> fkexibility and continued use of models in the future?
> I think I would suggest the scanner. Best, Eric Delson
>
> At 02:32 AM 3/23/2013 Saturday, you wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:47:07 -0400
>> From: "Pere M. Parés-Casanova" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Microscribe 3DX
>>
>> Hi to every body!
>> I have received a private offer for a 12 years Microscribe 3DX. Its prices
>> is 1,200 euros.
>> I have no experience on 3D GM, so no idea about the possibilities of this
>> deviece and if the price is OK.
>> Any comment will be absolutely well received.
>>
>> Pere-Miquel
>
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Aki Watanabe
Division of Paleontology
Richard Gilder Graduate School
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024
Florida State University - MS '12
University of Chicago - BA '09
website: https://sites.google.com/site/akinopteryx/
weblog: http://akiopteryx.blogspot.com/
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