Virtual Sun around Fossilized Oyster Reef

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Ana Djuricic
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Visualization of the World’s largest fossil oyster reef using shaded digital surface model generated from terrestrial laser scanning data, where approximately one billion points represent the entire scene of around 459 m².

Reef surface was illuminated by moving the virtual sun every 30 degrees (12 azimuth angles from 20-350). This technique provides paleontologists an interactive approach to virtually inspect the oyster reef, and to interpret the shell surface by changing the light source direction.

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Type Image Format GIF Size 48.3 MB Width 3583 px Height 5406 px Aspect 3583:5406 Coordinates 48.2006, 16.3790 Tint White Submitted 28 February 2016

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