3D Digitizing with the MicroScribe and Rhinoceros: How to Digitize an Electric Fish

Malcolm A. MacIver

Neuroscience Program
UIUC

10 December 1998

The VMIL's MicroScribe is a 3D digitizer that allows you to generate models of physical objects by touching the object's surface features with a stylus.  It can digitize objects on the order of a few millimeters to a meter and larger in size with an accuracy of a fraction of a millimeter.  Rhinoceros is a 3D NURBS-based modeling program that accepts input from the MicroScribe.  Basic operation of the MicroScribe and its use with Rhinoceros will be covered.  Time allowing, an application involving the digitization of a weakly electric fish for a study of its sensory acquisition behavior will be discussed.