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One Rule to Rule Them All: The Power of Annotations
One Rule to Rule Them All: 
The Power of Annotations
Ah, the power of a thousand pores.Sometimes, that is just what a porosity/inclusion analysis (PIA) gives you. But nobody wants data on a thousand pores; normally, we just need to ...
Nature's Time Capsules: Segmenting Beetles in Coprolite
Nature's Time Capsules: Segmenting Beetles in Coprolite
Before the dawn of 3D scanning and CT technology, most fossilized records on beetles came from fine-grained lake deposits and amber. However, because trees only started producing ...
CT Mysteries: A Case in Cheese
CT Mysteries: A Case in Cheese
Our next adventure takes us to Bern, Switzerland, to the nation's center of excellence for agricultural research—Agroscope. The institute prides itself on researching and ...
Let's Polish the Pocket Watch
Let's Polish the Pocket Watch
You've practiced, worked, and prepared your object for this big moment—now it's time to make it sparkle and shine for its front-page debut! In VG terms, this means playing with ...
A Clean Slate: Using ROIs to Polish the Surface
A Clean Slate: Using ROIs to Polish the Surface
ROIs are flexible—you can create them from volumes and polish them up a bit using operations like adding, intersecting, subtracting, smoothing, or even manually adjusting them ...
Your Image Goes Here
Your Image Goes Here
Art is not always subjective—at least in the world of CT scanning. Sometimes, the high or low quality of an image has little to do with personal taste. There are definitely a few ...
Battle Against the Void: Combining Voids and Inclusions in One Analysis
Battle Against the Void: Combining Voids and Inclusions in One Analysis
No one likes pores—even on CT scans. But as long as they don't compromise the stability of the part, we can live with them. This applies especially in castings, injection moldings...
Let's Talk Print Resolution
Let's Talk Print Resolution
TLDR;   A DIN A4 brochure has 2480 x 3508 pixels at 300 dpi. Print resolution refers to the level of detail in a printed image. It can be measured in dots per inch ...
Power to the PAPR: Reverse Engineering in the Pandemic
Power to the PAPR: Reverse Engineering in the Pandemic
By working with ROIs created from geometry elements, we can extract them along with the determined surface and use them as our starting contour. We can then convert the volumes to...
The Art of Clipping: A Piece of Cake
The Art of Clipping: 
A Piece of Cake
We often use CT to peek inside cylindrical objects, like pipes, battery cells, rods, and drill cores. And cakes. Contrary to popular belief, you can have your ...