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Figure 16. Kirk produced a gorgeous virtual endocast from the 3D-CT data
that were collected from LB1's skull. The endocast reveals convolutions, blood
vessels, and sutures of the skull. Courtesy Kirk Smith, Mallinckrodt Institute
of Radiology.
following week to producing the handful of virtual endocasts that we
surements from the virtual endocast that he had already produced from
the CT data from LB1's skull that Morwood had sent from Indonesia.
LB1's 3D virtual endocast turned out to be beautiful (figure 16). It could
be isolated and displayed on a computer screen, twirled, sliced, diced,
and precisely measured. Eventually we would compare it with virtual
endocasts from apes and other hominins, including
Homo sapiens.
I returned to Tallahassee to teach and then flew back to St. Louis
on December 8 for the filming. What a pleasure it was to finally meet
energetic and attractive David Hamlin. Scooter and I spent the day
conferring with him and his cameraman about the logistics of filming
during the next day. We also set up locations and arranged specimens
