Tracing the Destructive Beauty of Beetles

I was honored to assist California State Long Beach art professor Brittany Ransom with a particularly fascinating project: making 3d laser point cloud scans of Eucalyptus Longhorned Borer galleries. These galleries were seen as sinuous, beautiful depressions in the wood located just under the bark of the fallen logs.

Beetle damaged Eucalyptus log being laser scanned. 

Computer representation of the resulting scan. 

 Below is a video of Brittany discussing her project.