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SUMMARY:Of vertices\, voxels and bones: the geometric exploration of our s
 keleton - Alessio Veneziano\, University of Cambridge
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DESCRIPTION:The shape of things is our most direct way into the wonders of
  nature\, one that we can travel with no mediation but that of our own sen
 ses. Yet\, the power of our senses is limited and biased\, and we need tra
 nsforming nature into numbers to make sense of the complexity before our e
 yes. When we deal with shapes\, geometry can help and its application can 
 be extended to the digital forms populating today’s research\, made of 3
 D vertices and voxels. Archaeology and Anthropology are no strangers to th
 ese methods\, and the human and hominin skeleton has witnessed many of suc
 h applications to unravel the course of human evolution.\n\nIn this talk\,
  I will show how to use geometry to extract information from digitised ske
 letal elements. Three applications will be presented: (I) the digital rest
 oration of fossil specimens\; (II) the automatic segmentation of cranial e
 ndocasts and other skeletal cavities\; (III) the isolation of cancellous b
 one and the measurement of its geometric properties (such as complexity). 
 The methods behind these examples will be thoroughly explained\, to show t
 he inherent simplicity of their usage. \n\nRegister to receive Zoom link f
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LOCATION: Webinar  (via Zoom online)
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