Hand-Embroidered Notebooks Are Almost Too Pretty to Use
Check out these hand-embroidered notebooks that feature designs ranging from anatomical and natural to geometric and macabre, then try to make your own!
anatomy
Artist Crochets Anatomically Correct Heart from Wire
Not your typical crochet done with yarn! It’s wire. And it’s 3D. This artist uses crochet to make us think about illness in a whole new way.
Recent Advancements Improve 3D Printed Pharmaceuticals, Chocolate, and Hearts
3D Printing Pharmaceuticals Researchers in London are working on a way to 3D print pills. The shape and surface area of a pill are surprisingly important in how the drug is released into your system, so their idea is that specifically-shaped pills could meet a specific patient’s treatment needs. And futurists point out that one day, […]
See Your Insides Animated Via Kinect with Your Anatomy
You see yourself mirrored on a screen. Unlike a mirror, as you move closer your internal anatomy seems to be revealed, layer by layer. You can see your animated skeleton, muscles, and internal organs move as you move. Is this a new high tech X-Ray machine? Well no, but it’s still pretty cool. Diana Salles, […]
Build This Model Arm and Explore Human Tinkering
What’s the best way to learn anatomy? Tinkering.
Creating an Accurate Anatomical Model of an Octopus in 3D
If you look up “octopus anatomy” in Google Images, you will mainly find detailed illustrations of the internal organs. Unfortunately, they don’t do the anatomy of an octopus justice. I saw the octopus I’d dissected as a piece of art: a clean, tightly-packed bundle of clearly distinguishable parts with a great sense of symmetry. I photographed everything from different angles as reference for the 3d model I was planning to create. The goal was to start work on something I’ve dreamed of for a long time – a library of very detailed anatomical models.
aKNITomy
Emily knits soft, cozy depictions of realistic anatomical subjects. She says: I really like taking objects or concepts that many people (including myself, sometimes) are squeamish about and recreating them out of materials that many of the same people think are cozy and inviting. Shown uppermost is her Bisected Human Head. The brains were knit […]
