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Re:Ask HN: How can I 3D print my skeleton for research? by amjaeger on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:46PM (#19575747)
If you get an mri or ct scan you can use this package to segment the bones and the convert the image slices to 3D geometry. https://www.gibboncode.org/ It’s open source, but uses matlab which is not free if you are not at a university. It will also take a while...
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Re:Ask HN: How can I 3D print my skeleton for research? by cr0sh on Thursday April 04, 2019 @05:28PM (#19577307)
Could you substitute in octave for matlab? Or does it use something in matlab that is not available in octave?
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Re:Ask HN: How can I 3D print my skeleton for research? by amjaeger on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:47PM (#19586313)
Octave looks really cool, I am not familiar with it. Like I said, gibbon is open source, so you could attempt to port it. I didn't write gibbon, so I have no idea what the dependencies are like. But I imagine it would not be trivial.
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Re:Ask HN: How can I 3D print my skeleton for research? by i_am_good on Thursday April 04, 2019 @03:33PM (#19576250)
Thank you, this is helpful!
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