Date (Publication)

2024-05-10

Date (Creation)

2024-04-04

Citation identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d

Citation identifier

doi: / 10.5285/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d

Other citation details

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

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Nottingham	Taylor, C.	christopher.taylor@nottingham.ac.uk	Author
University of Nottingham	Taylor, C.	christopher.taylor@nottingham.ac.uk	Point of contact
University of Nottingham	Reader, T.	Tom.reader@nottingham.ac.uk	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

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Environmental Monitoring Facilities

Keywords

• Animal behaviour
• Biodiversity

• United Kingdom

• Hymenoptera

• Diptera

• insect

• photogrammetry

• 3D printing

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Use constraints

Other restrictions

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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

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Biota

Begin date

2020-06-01

End date

2021-08-01

Distribution format

Name	Version
Comma-separated values (CSV)
Polygon file format (.ply)
Object file format (.obj)
Material Template Library format (.mtl)
Image format (.jpg)

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d	Download the data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d.zip	Supporting information

Hierarchy level

Non geographic dataset

Other

nonGeographicDataset

Statement

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.

Metadata

File identifier

05169766-7355-4c3c-8ade-091db0583f9d XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

8859 Part 1

Hierarchy level

Non geographic dataset

Hierarchy level name

nonGeographicDataset

Date stamp

2025-11-19T15:06:44

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Point of contact