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The paper has some nice illustrations in case anyone is interested in reading about it in more detail: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zla

• neolog 6y ago
  I wonder why they're using illustrations instead of 3D models.
  • AlotOfReading 6y ago
    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.
  • jazzyjackson 6y ago
    Not everybody's got a high res 3D scanner laying around
    • bigiain 6y ago
      /me looks at the front facing camera and tof sensor on his phone and sighs...
      • TeMPOraL 6y ago
        Technology, meet business goals :(.
  • Someone 6y ago
    Drawings can better show what the bones look like than photographs (https://thenode.biologists.com/illustrators-see-camera-cant/science-art/ 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.
• themodelplumber 6y ago
  Whoa, that map on page 2 reminds me of some 1990s tabletop RPGs. Right down to the naming style.
• cheerlessbog 6y ago
  That paper is a beautiful thing: 86 pages full of hand stippled line drawings.
• Hokusai 6y ago
  Used to many 2 pager papers, at 86 pages this paper feels more like a book than a paper.