zooming into the human body anatomy
trip on the computer: The search engine giant Google has released a 3-D model of the human body. It allows the well-known Google Earth zooms. Muscles, bones, organs can be switched on and off. Anyone who wants can even explore the body from the inside.
The search giant from Mountain View, knowledge of all the world wants to store on its servers, has transferred the principle of the zooming now to explore the human body. With the application Body browser, Google has provided a detailed 3-D model into the net. It requires a browser that supports WebGL. Google's own Chrome browser dominated this standard, but also for example Firefox 4 beta. (Note: The link to Chrome at the Body-browser page of Google is wrong - here's the download ).
When calling Body browser is showing a boy dressed in shorts and sports bra woman. Whoever the next adjacent control slowly pushes it down, skin and clothing is always transparent - the underlying muscle strands are visible. And so it goes level by level and on. When pushed further, the controller, the muscles disappear - and bones, internal organs, nerves and blood vessels appear.
Naturally, the body free to rotate - and who wants can zoom in on specific body parts. The zoom journey ends not on the body surface - it goes well into the interior of the body. As it will become really exciting: Am I in the stomach? Or is it the liver? Fortunately can be switched on labels that will help lay the anatomy.
who want to can even view the nervous system and muscles at the same time. Because the transparency can be adjusted each fine, no detail remains hidden.
The developers of the Google Labs will soon, however, provide for equal rights: "A male model is coming soon," they promise.
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