A praying mantis slowly approaches a 3D printed model of a wasp before striking. The model is moved using a motor as mantises will ignore static prey ...

A jumping spider considers a set of 3D printed insects, which include a fly (top right), a wasp (next to the spider) and a series of intermediate mimics generated by 3D morphing. A praying mantis ...

Experts from the University of Nottingham have created life-size 3D-printed insect models to explore how some species trick ...

The process of making skeleton for character animation is a long-winded task requiring manual tweaking. This paper presents a novel method to generate an automatic robust animated skeleton from 3D ...