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Slice of Life: The Visible Human Project®
Once you get past the way they were created, the images of The Visible Human Project® take on an unexpected beauty and power. In this most graphic visualization of the human body, spatial relationships remain more intact than they would be using other, more ordinary methods of exploring the body's structure. Anatomy becomes map-like, a series of hidden and secret inner topologies.
"The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the National Library of Medicine's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals."
"The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project® is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts."
Gallery of still and animated visuals.