05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-19T15:06:44 UK GEMINI 2.3 Scanned 3D images and 3D printable images based on combinations of features of Diptera and Hymenoptera collected from the UK in 2021-22 2024-05-10 publication 2024-04-04 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d 10.5285/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d doi: Taylor, C., Reader, T. (2024). Scanned 3D images and 3D printable images based on combinations of features of Diptera and Hymenoptera collected from the UK in 2021-22. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d This dataset includes 3D colour images from scanned insect (Diptera and Hymenoptera) specimens, as well as some modified intermediate images which combine traits from two different specimens. The intermediate versions are in a format suitable for 3D printing. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d Taylor, C. University of Nottingham christopher.taylor@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-7104 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Taylor, C. University of Nottingham christopher.taylor@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-7104 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Reader, T. University of Nottingham Tom.reader@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7586-8814 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Nottingham EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Animal behaviour Biodiversity United Kingdom Hymenoptera Diptera insect photogrammetry 3D printing otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Taylor, C., Reader, T. (2024). Scanned 3D images and 3D printable images based on combinations of features of Diptera and Hymenoptera collected from the UK in 2021-22. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d English utf8 biota 2020-06-01 2021-08-01 Comma-separated values (CSV) Polygon file format (.ply) Object file format (.obj) Material Template Library format (.mtl) Image format (.jpg) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Insect specimens were collected between June 2020 and August 2021 from various locations in England using a hand net. Specimens were euthanized and 3D digital images of the insect specimens were obtained via photogrammetry. A 3D shape file (“mesh”) was built from a set of 36 photographs using the software 3DSOM. This produced the "raw reconstructions" which are provided in the form of .obj files with associated .jpg textures. Using the images obtained from photogrammetry as starting points, we constructed digital “transects” of similarity between pairs of real insects through 3D morphological space. We defined axes of phenotypic variation along which the traits of shape, colour, pattern, and size varied smoothly from one image to the other, and generated novel phenotypes by picking either intermediate or extrapolated points along those axes. The resulting 3D meshes are the "modified intermediate images" which are provided as .ply files.