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FIGURE 12.2 A researcher using a three-dimensional digitizer to observe landmark coordinates on a cranium.
Photograph by Roselyn Campbell.

should contact Dr. Ousley directly ( http://mai.mercyhurst.edu/personnel/stephen-d-
ousley/ ) . Other programs for recording landmark data are presented in Table 12.1 along
with relevant attributes and procurement information.
When working with a three-dimensional digitizer with an internal origin (0, 0, 0 point), it
is important to keep the digitizer and the skeletal structure, photograph, or radiograph

TABLE 12.1 Programs for Recording Landmark Coordinates a

Program Name Mode of Data Acquisition How to Access

3Skull
(Stephen Ousley,
2011)

Landmarks d 3D digitizer connected to
computer

Contact Stephen Ousley
http://mai.mercyhurst.edu/personnel/
stephen-d-ousley/

DSDIGIT
(Dennis Slice)

Landmarks d 3D digitizer connected to
computer

http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/
Software page, Data Acquisition

Landmark Editor
(IDAV/UC-Davis)

Landmarks and semilandmarks from laser
surface scans

http://graphics.idav.ucdavis.edu/
research/EvoMorph

tpsDIG2
(F. James Rohlf)

Landmarks and outlines from image files,
scans and video

http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/
Software page, Data Acquisition

a This is not a complete list of all available programs, more are available at http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/ , Software page, Data Acquisition.