3D Brains in Second Life
I was reading through a cognitive neuroscience paper in Neuroimage yesterday for a news story I'm writing. As is often the case, the paper was full of references to brain regions but only contained one figure showing some imaging results (there were loads of fairly impenetrable tables instead). It struck me that Second Life might be able to help with this kind of problem - by displaying a 3D brain (like this one perhaps, but more detailed) that the user could pull apart or walk around at will.
Does anyone else know of similar resources that exist already? Would others find this kind of thing a useful thing to be doing in SL? Or even know of anyone who could help set it up?
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Building a "working" 3D volume model of human brain has been on my to-do -list for quite some time; but, I found it a bit complicated to build it using the current building tools consisting of boxes et al. The whole building scene is going to be shifting to a new phase soon with the arrival of freely-defined elements, so I'll get back to it.
Another way to do it would be to use transparent "brain slices" through which you can walk (and I think I saw this already somewhere) but it just won't work the same way.
There are plenty of builders more skilled than I am, but if interested, drop me a line in SL (name is Yoe May).
Posted by: Marylka Yoe Uusisaari | May 21, 2007 03:55 AM