Data from: Back to life: Techniques for developing high-quality 3D reconstructions of plants and animals from digitized specimens

<strong> </strong> <strong>This is the supplementary material for </strong><em><strong>Back to life: Techniques for developing high-quality 3D reconstructions of plants and animals from digitized specimens</strong></em> <br> <strong>This folder includes:</strong> <br> <strong>Beginner tutorial:</strong> Fossil plant cupule (<em>Petriellaea triangulata</em> [Shi et al. 2021]) o <em>Included files: </em>Cupule Tutorial (.docx), 3D object files (Cupule before.stl, Cupule before.obj) o <em>Necessary software</em>: Meshlab o <em>Skills developed</em>: Shrinkwrapping, simplification <br> <strong>Intermediate tutorial: </strong>Reptile (<em>Sphenodon punctatus </em>[downloaded from Morphosource.org]) o <em>Included files</em>: Sphenodon Tutorial (.docx), 3D object files (Sphenodon with holes.stl, Sphenodon with holes.obj) o <em>Necessary software</em>: Meshlab, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Fusion 360 o <em>Skills developed</em>: Rearticulation, repair of broken fossils, basic sculpting, shrinkwrapping. <br> <strong>Advanced tutorial: </strong>Fossil crab (<em>Cretapsara athanata</em> [Luque et al. 2021)] o <em>Included files: </em>Tutorial (.docx), 3D object files (Crab before.stl, Crab before.obj) o <em>Necessary software</em>: Meshlab, Autodesk Maya o <em>Skills developed</em>: Debris removal, structural repair, shrinkwrapping, rearticulation, smoothing and simplification <br> Meshlab is an opensource software available at https://www.meshlab.net/ <br> Autodesk Maya and Fusion 360 are available with a student and educators license at https://www.autodesk.com/education/edu-software/overview