Open source 3D atlas of human anatomy

To garner more interest for anyone coming in cold to the Github repo, linking to or embedding the original post might be worthwhile as it does a great job of talking through the project's value.

This project could be profoundly relevant to all of humankind, be it learning anatomy, or liaising with healthcare workers to talk through issues visually or in the commercial sector (e.g. producing photorealistic animated films/virtual try-on).

Edit: remove repetitive use of project

Finally, we need atlases that represent the breadth of humanity. It's far too easy to view the "typical anatomy" represented in a major atlas as "normal anatomy" with any variations being abnormal, rather than just less common. Open source atlases can fix all of those problems, ultimately providing a comprehensive and collaborative view of what human anatomy really is.

Edit: actually, I think it's better to take out "The First" instead. The Blender part is in the domain name.

I have just downloaded the Z-Anatomy atlas in Blender format and I have opened it in Blender, on a Linux system.

It appears to work fine and it is usable even without the viewing application that is provided only for Android and Windows.

In the past I have used directly BodyParts3D, which is a great collection of 3D models and which remains very useful, as the models of various organs are easy to import in any 3D application.

This complete Blender model should be more convenient for exploring the whole body or for retargetting some captured motion on it to create an animated sequence where the internal movements of various organs are displayed, e.g. of muscles and bones.

Edit:

When I have looked for the first time at openanatomy.org, I have browsed too quickly and my initial impression was that the atlases can be viewed only online, in which case they would have been useless for me.

Looking a second time more carefully, I have seen that the atlases can also be downloaded and viewed with the free program 3D Slicer.

To test how it works, I have downloaded and installed 3D Slicer on a Linux system and I have also downloaded from Github one of the atlases of openanatomy.org, the brain atlas.

The atlas can be viewed without problems with 3D Slicer.

For some purposes the atlases from openanatomy.org may be more detailed, but the Z-Anatomy atlas offers complementary benefits as a whole body atlas that should be also easy to animate.

This was in process just when the association dissolved, which is why it was left half done, but it is something I have pending, along with implementing all the improvements to the code that I am programming in the VR version.

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