The Virtual Corpse

 


As another example of the genius of HBO Original Programming, America Undercover always stirs up interesting documentaries. Tonight was about the Visible Human Project who's project involved disecting the cadivar of a death row inmmate killed by lethal injection by the state of Texas. They took the frozen body, suspended it in a gelatin *matrix* mold, and sliced it into 4 blocks (cut across the body as it was layed down). The blocks were then stood up on end, photographed by a overhead camera and then shaved 1mm at a time. Each millimeter was photographed making possible new 3D and 2D models of the human body. Watch this amazing animation of all of the pictures that were taken...

1/27/2003 03:37:22 AM