Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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3D visualisations

Multi-scale high-resolution modelling of complex coral reef ecosystems. Updates on research developing by Sandin Lab and NIOZ on a fine-scale model of a Curaçao coral reef. Combining Structure-from-Motion photomosaics with fine-scale hydrodynamics to develop a coral reef model.

Reef domain discretisation

Reef domain discretisation

FEB 2020 | Bringing the reef to a computer: Computational 3D reconstruction and spatial discretisation of a coral reef in Curaçao.

Reef particle tracking

Reef particle tracking

FEB 2020 | Lagrangian tracking of particles moving through the Runge-Kutta reef following simulated hydrodynamic ocean flow. -in progress-

Reef Reconstruction

Reef Reconstruction

JAN 2020 | Take a dive down amongst the brain and lettuce-leaf coral... A 3D reconstruction and spatial discretisation of a coral reef in Curaçao. -in progress-