According to commit history, built in 3 days.
I spent roughly 2 weeks researching the domain, figuring out the structure of the tool, planning the architecture and deciding how the different anatomical layers and interactions should work before the repo history you are looking at began.
This could be a part of Wikipedia.
My goal with Dental Scope is to see how far an open source version can go, especially if dentists, students, developers and 3D artists start contributing to it. Full body anatomy would obviously be a much larger undertaking, but I would love for the project to gradually expand in that direction.
The Wikipedia comparison is probably much more ambitious than where the project is today, but the idea of a freely accessible educational resource is what makes me do this.
note your comment at the bottom of that image
Zeruxe: in case you are unfamiliar, this means most people can’t see them, only those who are logged in and have showdead enabled.
Not the engineering effort behind it.
It still looks great. And very good for understanding whatever it is my dentist is doing with my teeth.
Just to clarify the 3 days part though, that is the implementation period currently visible in the GitHub history. The research, planning and architecture work started roughly 2 weeks before that.
But I agree with the broader point. The useful part is whether the tool actually helps someone understand the anatomy better, and that is what I care most about improving now.