[HN Gopher] ScanAllFish
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ScanAllFish
Author : luu
Score : 48 points
Date : 2024-04-13 08:23 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.adamsummers.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.adamsummers.org)
| krisoft wrote:
| Despite the name, and the leading sentence ("I am on a mission to
| scan all the ray-finned fishes in the world.") they do not
| actually intend to scan all the fishes. They settle for merely
| scanning a single individual from every known ray-finned species.
| I guess we can leave the real project to Bowerick Wowbagger the
| Infinitely Prolonged after he has finished insulting everyone in
| alphabetical order.
|
| Joking aside it sounds like the way they go about the project is
| that they load multiple specimens in the CT scanner at a time by
| forming a "burrito" using the fishes and cheese cloth. Quite
| smart. Their procedure description is full of practical advice
| such as "sometimes eels fit best wrapped around the whole
| burrito." and "You must ensure absolutely no liquids will leak
| out of your canister", and "Do not force fish into the cylinder,
| you will break fins and/or deform the animal."
|
| Sadly they don't have a Mola tecta scan yet. :)
| lagniappe wrote:
| "You're a jerk, a complete kneebiter." - Arthur Dent
| masto wrote:
| It was actually Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged who
| decided to insult everyone in the universe, individually,
| personally, and in alphabetical order, and who briefly showed
| up while Arthur Dent was stranded in a cave on prehistoric
| Earth to call him a jerk.
| schoen wrote:
| It's impressive that all of the universe's languages have a
| canonical alphabetization that Wowbagger could follow. (It
| would already be impressive to have a canonical
| alphabetization for all of _Earth_ 's languages, and those
| are all spoken using human vocal anatomy!)
|
| Although I guess Wowbagger could have had an unlimited
| amount of time to do descriptive linguistics work as a
| lead-up to actually beginning his insult project.
| schoen wrote:
| > Despite the name, and the leading sentence ("I am on a
| mission to scan all the ray-finned fishes in the world.") they
| do not actually intend to scan all the fishes. They settle for
| merely scanning a single individual from every known ray-finned
| species.
|
| Maybe that's a distinction available between "scan all the
| fish" and "scan all the fishes" (!). (Where "fish" =
| "individuals" and "fishes" = "species".)
| flir wrote:
| I see.... t-shirts. Many many t-shirts.
|
| Seriously, very cool link.
| theogravity wrote:
| Is the scan your fish button supposed to just refresh the page?
| fwilliams wrote:
| Ha! I had a side project during my PhD to build a segmenting and
| straightening program for this project!
|
| Source code is here: https://github.com/fwilliams/unwind
|
| Paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04890
|
| It got accepted to Chi 2020 which was cancelled so the paper
| never got presented, sadly!
| bglazer wrote:
| MicroCT scanners are really amazing pieces of technology. There's
| a professor from the University of Granada that posts absolutely
| incredible 3d MicroCT scans of insects. It really shows that even
| the lowliest, most inconspicuous beetle is actually an
| unfathomably complex and intricately detailed thing.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/@albatercedor
| imzadi wrote:
| Send fish pics
|
| In case anyone else was wondering: "They are so called because of
| their lightly built fins made of webbings of skin supported by
| radially extended thin bony spines called lepidotrichia, as
| opposed to the bulkier, fleshy lobed fins of the sister class
| Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish)."
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinopterygii
| seabass-labrax wrote:
| Yes please! Where do I sign up?
|
| I tried to find anatomical drawings of my kind (multiple names,
| most of them coined by the same man, but typically known now as
| _Dicentrarchus labrax_ , the European seabass). I didn't really
| succeed: it is exceptionally difficult to find high-quality
| drawings in any consistent format on the Web, and once you add
| 'open data' as a requirement, the number drops to almost nil.
| Good natural history drawings are frequently still easier to find
| in books from the 19th century than they are the Web!
|
| This project will hopefully change that, because from the CT
| scans, it should be possible to generate consistent images
| quickly.
| lxe wrote:
| https://osf.io/srdvf all the fish and a cat!
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