PE NOTE: In order to view the QuickTime VR movie, QuickTime 3.0 is required. It is available for both Macintosh and PC. QuickTime 3.0 can be downloaded free from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/. QuickTime and the QuickTime logo are trademarks used under license. QuickTime is registered in the U.S. and other countries.
ABSTRACT
Publication in electronic journals permits authors to substantially increase the number and type of methods used to illustrate important concepts. An example of one of these new techniques of illustration, only available electronically, is QuickTime VR movies.
Although too time consuming for routine micropaleontological illustration (about 6 hours per illustration), QuickTime VR object movies hold great promise for illustrating new species as these movies permit the viewer to rotate and view a virtual copy of the specimen from any angle. A specimen of the benthic forminifer Elphidium crispum (well documented and illustrated in scientific literature) was used to produce a series of digitally captured scanning electron images. The images were edited and assembled using Apple’s QuickTime VR Authoring Studio program.
The process of assembling a QuickTime VR object movie is relatively simple and straightforward once the images are suitably prepared. Postproduction time can be significantly reduced if care is taken to mount the sample exactly in the center of the stub.
Patrick D. Lyons, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada
Laurence Head, 2 BlackDogs, 236 Greensway Avenue, Vanier, Ontario K1L 7V4, Canada;
KEY WORDS: QuickTime VR, illustration, micropaleontology, electronic, electronic media
Copyright: Paleontological
Society, 1 August 1998
Submission: 10 June, 1998 Acceptance: 9 July 1998
http://palaeo-electronica.org/1998_2/lyons/issue2.htm