News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally been studied in detail. Parent comment

Re:First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally b... by neolog on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:20PM (#24320838)
I wonder why they're using illustrations instead of 3D models.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally b... by AlotOfReading on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:38PM (#24320925)
They probably had an illustrator already availabile and didn't want to make an unrealistic secondary model while fighting the modeling/rendering toolchain to do so.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally b... by Someone on Sunday August 30, 2020 @05:48AM (#24322399)
Drawings can better show what the bones look like than photographs (https://thenode.biologists.com/illustrators-see-camera-cant/...)

I would think that is true for “drawing vs 3D model”, too, but of course, 3D models could be used to check the interpretation by the illustrator.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally b... by jazzyjackson on Sunday August 30, 2020 @02:37AM (#24321790)
Not everybody's got a high res 3D scanner laying around
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally b... by bigiain on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:15AM (#24322099)
/me looks at the front facing camera and tof sensor on his phone and sighs...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally b... by TeMPOraL on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:47AM (#24322207)
Technology, meet business goals :(.
[ Parent | on HN ]