# Is it possible to make the surface of the created model look like real bone?

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-the-surface-of-the-created-model-look-like-real-bone/23621>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** segmentation, dicom, 3d-model\
**Created:** [May 28, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-the-surface-of-the-created-model-look-like-real-bone/23621 "2022-05-28T13:16:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![wonseok0128](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/wonseok0128/32/15432_2.png) [@wonseok0128](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/wonseok0128)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-the-surface-of-the-created-model-look-like-real-bone/23621/1 "2022-05-28T13:16:05Z")

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Is it possible to make the surface of the created model look like real bone?

I made humerus & hill sahcs lesion by using segment editor, growth from seeds and smoothing effect.

But it looks like toy of bone…

I want to make it look like real bone

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/a/f/af999d822ef74af7a0cc900cd01ee4e883aa8591.jpeg)

please some help…

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-the-surface-of-the-created-model-look-like-real-bone/23621/2 "2022-05-28T15:07:28Z")

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Slicer is designed to make the segmentations as faithful a possible to the imaging data (i.e. in size and shape). To make the model look more like a real bone I suggest you use a visual effects too like [Blender](https://www.blender.org/).

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**Author:** ![wonseok0128](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/wonseok0128/32/15432_2.png) [@wonseok0128](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/wonseok0128)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-the-surface-of-the-created-model-look-like-real-bone/23621/3 "2022-05-28T22:23:49Z")

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Thanks for the reply.  
But I don’t have enough time to use the new program.  
Is there any way to change the surface texture?

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**Author:** ![cpinter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/cpinter/32/7995_2.png) [@cpinter](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/cpinter)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 9:52am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-the-surface-of-the-created-model-look-like-real-bone/23621/4 "2022-05-31T09:52:29Z")

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You can use the Lights module in the Sandbox extension.