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ZygoteBody, formerly Google Body, is a web application by
Zygote Media Group ''Zygote Media Group'' is a 3D human anatomy content and technology company. Formed in 1994, with an initial emphasis oanatomically accurate 3D human modelsfor the entertainment industry, the company has since specialized in enhanced visualization ...
that renders manipulable 3D
anatomical Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having it ...
models of the
human body The human body is the structure of a Human, human being. It is composed of many different types of Cell (biology), cells that together create Tissue (biology), tissues and subsequently organ systems. They ensure homeostasis and the life, viabi ...
. Several layers, from
muscle Skeletal muscles (commonly referred to as muscles) are organs of the vertebrate muscular system and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton. The muscle cells of skeletal muscles are much longer than in the other types of muscl ...
tissues down to
blood vessel The blood vessels are the components of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body. These vessels transport blood cells, nutrients, and oxygen to the tissues of the body. They also take waste and carbon dioxide away ...
s, can be removed or made transparent to allow better study of individual body parts. Most of the body parts are labelled and are searchable.


Technology

The human models are based on data from the
Zygote Media Group ''Zygote Media Group'' is a 3D human anatomy content and technology company. Formed in 1994, with an initial emphasis oanatomically accurate 3D human modelsfor the entertainment industry, the company has since specialized in enhanced visualization ...
. The website uses
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and
WebGL WebGL (Short for Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. WebGL is fully integrated with other web standards, allowing GPU-accelerated ...
technology to display 3D images inside the
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without requiring the installation of external browser plug-ins.


History

ZygoteBody was launched as Google Body on December 15, 2010. On
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2011, users were greeted with the anatomy of a
cow Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are large, domesticated, cloven-hooved, herbivores. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus ''Bos''. Adult females are referred to as cows and adult ma ...
on the home page. The cow mode
is still available
as part of the open-3d-viewer open source project. As part of the wind down on
Google Labs Google Labs was an incubator created by Google to test and publicly demonstrate new projects. It was online from early 2002 to mid-2011. Google described Google Labs as "a playground where our more adventurous users can play around with prototyp ...
, it was announced that Google Body will be shut down but will continue to be maintained by Zygote as ZygoteBody. On October 13, 2011 the Google Body site was shut down. Then on January 9, 2012 ZygoteBody was launched and core code base (with the Google Cow model as a demo) was made available as an open source project calle
open-3d-viewer


See also

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Visible Human Project The Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. It is used as a tool for the progression of medical findings, in which ...
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Google Health Google Health is a branch of Google started in 2006, originally designed as an to attempt to create a repository of health records and data (personal health record services) in order to connect doctors, hospitals and pharmacies directly. The pr ...
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Anatomography Anatomography is an interactive website which supports generating anatomical diagrams and animations of the human body. The Anatomography website is maintained by the DBCLS (Database Center for Life Science) non-profit research institute located ...


References


External links

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open-3d-viewer
{{Google Inc. 2010 software Anatomical simulation Anatomy websites Discontinued Google services Google services Web applications