The New Range Sensor
The new range sensor is now in operation at the
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
Here it is — click on the image for a larger view.
Test Images
Most impressive first.
Here are parts of the front and rear of a penny.
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Now for the first three infraorbital bones of Scorpaena plumieri.
60 mm long by 20 mm wide by 7 mm deep.
Upper left image is registered intensity.
Upper right image is rendered 3-D shape.
Lower left image is depth-as-intensity.
Lower right image uses rendered 3-D shape for intensity,
and color-encodes depth as hue.
Click on the image at left for a detailed image.
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A small valley can be seen running left-to-right, about 40% of the way
from the bottom to the top in the two images on the right.
It starts near the left edge, and continues at least 60% of the way
across the specimen, just above a V-shaped formation.
That valley is a structure on the same scale as a suture.
I don't think it is a suture, but then again I don't know enough about
icthyological anatomy to know if the lacrimal bone is a collection of
smaller bones joined by sutures, as the skull is.
At any rate, this shows promise that at least on skulls of moderate size,
say at least 40 mm long, sutures may be detectable by 3-D shape alone.
