The molars are spectacular: those vertical bars of light (radio-opaque, if it’s an X-ray) enamel are fascinating. I’d expect an elephant tooth to look something like that!
I think getting an ‘impressed’ from Mike despite my whole blog falling under the ‘stinkin’ heads’ and ‘stinkin’ mammals’ categories counts as a major plus!
Allen – it was a CT (Computer Tomography) X-ray scan, which means the data was captured in fully 3 dimensions. As all I wanted was a pic from my colleagues data, I oriented the 3D model side on on the screen, arbitrarily chose the colours and the densities they represent, and took a snap shot. So it kind of is X-ray with colour added, but not in a traditional way! Let me know if you want more info – I might do a post on the process and our setup in Helsinki at some point (with nice pics of teeth being scanned of course).
The molars are cool, I mostly ignored them because I was comparing the incisors of the vole and squirrel, maybe I’ll come back to them and add more in another post. I think elephant, horse, vole and other teeth might look kinda like that, though they have differing amounts of a third material, cementum, which might vary between those species and confuse things a little.
And yep, subtly sneaking additional mammals (and teeth!) into SV-POW! works for me too.
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