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Browsing the Body

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-porn dept.

ColdWetDog writes "Google Labs has an interesting new line of business — human anatomy. The Google Body Browser is a 3D representation of the major parts of the human body. Based on the well known and very expensive Zygote 3D artwork, you can zoom in, rotate, view the various organ systems (bone, internal organs, nerves) in various states of transparency. Very much like Google Earth in both execution and concept. Written with HTML5, it requires WebGL to work. The Firefox 4 beta seems to work fine. Google, of course, recommends Chrome."

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  1. breasts and genitalia? by toQDuj · · Score: 4, Insightful

    quick question, does it show breasts and genitalia? The images on the "you need chrome"-page suggest otherwise. Which would be a great step backwards in terms of biology education, but completely intelligible from an america-centric self-censorship perspective.

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    1. Re:breasts and genitalia? by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Funny

      I had great success in finding her mammaries and vagina via the search box!

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    2. Re:breasts and genitalia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sigh....

      And you needed the search box to find them?

      I guess I should know better....this is slashdot after all....

  2. Re:This is where I hate Apple by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why, then, not enlighten us with this information?

    Send me teh codz?

    Actually it doesn't even work in the standard Safari. It looks like you have to also down load the nightly build from webkit.org and then run "defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitWebGLEnabled -bool YES"

    So I should apologize to Apple in *this* case

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  3. Re:This is where I hate Apple by Goaway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is because WebGL is an experimental feature. It is not meant to be easy or obvious! WebGL is not read for general use yet.

  4. We really are nerds... by Beroya · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I like how the first dozen or so comments are just about the browser compatability, and not the biological fidelity.