1. Richard P. Hulser, Chief Librarian Natural History Museum Los Angeles County University ofToronto Symposium July 25, 2013 Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory: www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0237/

2. * *Traditional way sculpting, modifying and casting *New way scanning, modifying, printing in less time and higher accuracy 3. * *Fast turnaround from scan to displayable copy *Scaling up or down *Example: Archaeopteryx wings Print from 3D scan Test printed object in wind tunnel No harm to specimen yet detailed configuration accuracy 4. * *Paleoparadoxiid *Molding, Casting *Scanning *3D Printing 5. * *T-Rex sensory gland in skull 6. * *28,000 year old bees in La Brea Tarpits *3D CT microscan (borrowed from U. Southern California) *Revealed male and female bees in separate nest cells *Species tolerate specific environment *PLAN: Print bees larger to enable better examination by researchers 7. * *Small mummy casing *Thought to be a bird *Mummy casing not cut *Scan revealed partial set of cat bones Cat mummy offering 8. * *Permission to scan and prototype items in private hands Research cant do other ways *Ownership protection Who owns 3D scan or model created from it? *Authentication verification of 3D scan file critical 9. * *Software usability CAD software challenge to learn and use *Makerbot affordable 3D printing leader Sold to larger company Stratasys so not independent anymore. Could impact pricing and technological availability or advancements 10. * *CT Microscan rare and fragile publications *Create digital representation *Print facsimile for closer physical inspection *Example: 16th century monographs too delicate to open for scanning *Brittle 19th & 20th century newspapers *Build on digitisation projects: 1990s scans of General Archives of the Indies Seville Spain (IBM); http://en.www.mcu.es/archivos/MC/AGI/index.html West Semitic Research Project (University of Southern California) http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/information/ 11. * *Luis Chiappe, Vice President, Research & Collections *Giar-Ann Kung, Assistant Collections Manager, Entomology *Howell Thomas, Lab Manager, Vertebrate Paleontology *Justin Hall, Research Associate, Vertebrate Paleontology *Vanessa Rhue, Assistant Collections Manager, Vertebrate Paleontology *Xiaoming Wang, Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology