Comments on: Real-Time Visible Human Using GLSL Emulated Volumetrics

By: dusty

dusty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:15:56 +0000

Here you go for detailed info:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

an yes, they use the word Cadaver. :)

By: dusty

dusty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:59:01 +0000

@stupiduser: actually, if this is like the first time I saw this, then it's quite grim.

The man I saw, as far as I remember, was a man on death row who gave his body to science, though I can't be sure on that. It was a while ago!!

Anyway, the froze him inside and out in this massive block of ice. Turned him upside down, then shaved, YEP SHAVED, micro layers off the block from the bottom up and scanned them.

Then they arranged the layers in a computer and used volumetrics to render his entire body so you could scan through him at all angles.

Although this is old tech, this is still impressive that it's done in Blender! And a sign of volumetrics (emulated or not) to come! Woot!

By: stupiduser

stupiduser — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:21:03 +0000

really want to see how they scan the body
must be scary

By: durden

durden — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:07:01 +0000

quiet frieghtening

By: PickAxe

PickAxe — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:15:02 +0000

@Johan: Only on 64-bit platforms.

By: Papasmurf

Papasmurf — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:04:41 +0000

For the first 30 seconds I was like, "ok, whoopee" but then, when you adjust the camera clipping, WOW!

By: HeatingFreezer

HeatingFreezer — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:46:21 +0000

@Agile: Yes it is archaic, but there is not yet a method to show the different tissues in that "clarity".

You can use an MRT/CRT, but that provides only B/W images colorized only by "density". After all it's just giant microtomy. So Yes again, archaic !!

By: +peter

+peter — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:15:23 +0000

Do you feel better after getting that off your chest Agile?

By: Agile

Agile — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:19:45 +0000

Hi everyone. since I come from bio realm this is nothing new to me.
The method used there is really archaic…

By: Cub

Cub — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:01:29 +0000

Sheer epicsauce.