Virtual Autopsy Table

It’s not pretty, and certainly not for the fainted hearted…
But I can’t be nothing but amazed at this visualization project.

Some years ago it was the ‘Visible Human Project‘ that both socked us, but also amazed us and help us see and learn a whole lot about the contents of our bodies, today I came across The Virtual Autopsy Table, an interactive installation, where users can freely interact with stunning volumetric 3D datasets acquired via start of the art medical imaging technics of real scanned human bodies. The result is simply amazing:

10/GUI

Clayton Miller’s 10/GIU proposal envisions a possible future interaction model for Desktops:

The proposition relies on separation between visual and input areas, introducing ‘con10nuum’, a window manager that works as a pipeline manager for windows, where the input area besides an enlarged multitouch pad actually allows both hands & fingers to work simultaneous as different input devices.

One of the positive aspects that I liked on this was the introduction of a pre-defined language for interaction, pretty much like the ones we have on mac’s today, where same actions can be invoked in different apps by using the same keyboard combinations.

I’m wondering, when are we finally going to ditch the 46yo Mouse!