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As Matt recently noted, we both have a ton of photos from various expeditions that we’ve never got around to posting — not to mention a ton of specimens that we’ve seen but never got around to working on. Here is one of the most exciting: {.alignnone .size-full .wp-image-14594 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“14594” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2017/12/31/the-giant-brachiosaur-cervical-of-arches-national-park/2016-05-10-10-39-21-cropped/”

Matt just commented to me: “One thing I am realizing is that I have loads(*) of cleaned-up, ready-to-post photos in old talks, that I’ve never posted.” I too have that experience. The problem is, they tend to be sized for a 1280×960 projector screen, which is not really good enough for modern illustrations.

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Here’s a bunch of cool stuff that is either available now or happening soon: {.size-large .wp-image-14542 .aligncenter loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“14542” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2017/11/28/promo-pandemonium-prehistoric-times-mark-hallett-calendar-public-talks-and-norwescon-41/pt-cover-issue-123-fall-2017/” orig-file=“https://svpow.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/pt-cover-issue-123-fall-2017.jpg” orig-size=“1200,1556”

Having benefitted so hugely from 3D models that Heinrich Mallison made for me — most notably, the Xenoposeidon model that is the supplementary data file for the recent preprint — I realised the time has come for me to learn to do this for myself. To that end, I am going to read all the tutorials he’s written on the subject.

Peter Falkingham and Nick Gardner independently put me onto Sketchfab: a website that provides a way to view and navigate 3D models without needing to download any software beyond the browser that you’re already running. So get yourself over to the live Xenoposeidon model!

In writing the recent preprint “ Xenoposeidon is the earliest known rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur” (Taylor 2017), it was invaluable to have a 3D model of the Xenoposeidon vertebra available. Here’s a short clip of viewing the model in the free MeshLab program.

There’s just time before midnight strikes to wish Xenoposeidon a very happy tenth birthday. It came along just a month and a half after SV-POW! itself — in fact, I can’t even remember now, a decade on, whether part of the reason we started SV-POW! in the first place was so we’d have somewhere to talk about it when the paper (Taylor and Naish 2007) came out.