This web site contains a Java program for accessing the sliced-up prisoner data from the National Library of Medicines Visible Human Project. The visible human project took a human body and sliced it very finely, taking high resolution pictures of each slice. This applet allows you to view that data. The main screen shows three different slices of the human body, one along each axis. Each slice has a cut-line drawn in it, and by moving the cut-line in one picture you correspondingly change the picture in the other two. You can select any of the pictures and ask for a blow-up, showing more detail.

This is a very nice, simple interface to use in viewing the visible human data. The only problem with it is that the Java applet seems to have trouble in some web browsers. In particular, I can get it to work in Netscape, but not in Microsoft Explorer. But if you get it to work, you and your students will have no problem using it, and its pretty fun to scan through the the different areas of the body and try to figure out what's what.

Computer: Web-browser

Source: http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/vishuman/VisibleHuman.html

Cost: Free

Last updated 12 June, 1998