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#4082174 - 02/22/15 03:37 PM Entomologist Finds a Use for Legos  
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"The Natural History Museum in London has a gargantuan task ahead: the mass digitization of its sprawling collections. Over the next five years, the museum plans to scan more than 20 million pinned specimens. The job will require imaging an inordinate variety of insects, from metallic-green beetles and butterflies as colorful as a Monet, to tropical parasitic wasps and grasshoppers from Mount Everest"

Four different Lego models for the pinned insect manipulator, or "IMp" (Steen Dupont)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IQTVAOZoo





full article
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ar...h-legos/385380/


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#4082287 - 02/22/15 08:36 PM Re: Entomologist Finds a Use for Legos [Re: Haggart]  
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