Food remains found in coprolites include mollusks, teeth, fish scales, and seeds. If a picture is worth a thousand words, in the computer age a picture can be made up of a thousand photos. Silvers starts by selecting small images to create the big picture. Once Silvers chooses his subjects, the software does the rest. It sorts photos by color and brightness, then attempts to fit each photo into different positions to recreate the larger, digitized image.
Darker photos form shadows and lighter ones produce brightness.