Date (Publication)

2024-05-10

Date (Creation)

2024-04-04

Identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d

Identifier

doi: / 10.5285/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d

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Taylor, C., Reader, T. (2024). Scanned 3D images and 3D printable images based on combinations of features of Diptera and Hymenoptera collected from the UK in 2021-22. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d

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• Environmental Monitoring Facilities

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Taylor, C., Reader, T. (2024). Scanned 3D images and 3D printable images based on combinations of features of Diptera and Hymenoptera collected from the UK in 2021-22. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d

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EnglishEnglish

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Biota

Begin date

2020-06-01

End date

2021-08-01

Distribution format

• Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

• Polygon file format (.ply) ()

• Object file format (.obj) ()

• Material Template Library format (.mtl) ()

• Image format (.jpg) ()

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Statement

Insect specimens were collected between June 2020 and August 2021 from various locations in England using a hand net. Specimens were euthanized and 3D digital images of the insect specimens were obtained via photogrammetry. A 3D shape file (“mesh”) was built from a set of 36 photographs using the software 3DSOM. This produced the "raw reconstructions" which are provided in the form of .obj files with associated .jpg textures. Using the images obtained from photogrammetry as starting points, we constructed digital “transects” of similarity between pairs of real insects through 3D morphological space. We defined axes of phenotypic variation along which the traits of shape, colour, pattern, and size varied smoothly from one image to the other, and generated novel phenotypes by picking either intermediate or extrapolated points along those axes. The resulting 3D meshes are the "modified intermediate images" which are provided as .ply files.

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05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d XML

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EnglishEnglish

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ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1

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nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset

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nonGeographicDataset

Date stamp

2025-11-13T16:22:33

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3