Animation of a volumetric skeleton

Abstract

This project is a part of a larger effort to animate the Visible Human Dataset, which is available from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and consists of cryogenic slices of a human male. Each slice is 1024x1024 pixels, and there are 1024 slices. By using a commercial animation package, we have created complex movements for the Visible Human Dataset. The figure to left is an image of the Visible Human created by using volume rendering algorithms.