Model 20 - Panamanian Golden Frog

3D Model

Thank you, Digital Team! I will keep an eye on your work. I lived a year in Panama, and had these cute but dangerous little green and black frogs hopping around the garden. I dare not touch them, and they would stand still only until the very instant you tried to snap a photo, but that and my general outlook keep me quite interested in just about anything you are likely to make models of.

@johndconnaughton HI John - we hear you loud and clear - others have made this point - we are in the process of determining the best method to reduce file size while still maintaining quality - our experience is that reducing to low ploy models significantly degrades quality - however, your point is well taken - our models are pretty massive and up to know we have put them online as "base" models, as a number of individuals desire the full model to play with - many individuals such as you will want lower-res, smaller models. At any rate, we anticipate that we will begin to start displaying lower res models.

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The Digital Life team

Your several frogs here are fantastic, but TOO BIG! Model 39 is a single object worth 787 MEGAbytes. One little frog, using up almost 1/1000 of my entire data hard drive. And it takes up time to move that kind of volume around.

Since a good portion of that is the ground the frog is sitting on, I took it into Blender to try to slice away that chunk and have just the frog. I would do that anyway, of course, as I want to arrange my own setting without some piece of rock imposing. Well, I haven't succeeded yet, for one thing even Blender chokes a bit on this file size. But I will get there. And then I will have to have Blender chop out about 90% of the file size by eliminating vertices. Be assured, you can still have great resolution at a fraction of what you have captured here. Personally I LIKE perfection too, but not when it costs too much in space and time.

So...if you can avoid the piece of ground in future, that would be really helpful. And please experiment with the degree of resolution you are pursuing, in the name of making science more easily accessible. Thanks!