ZygoteBody, formerly Google Body, is a web application by Zygote Media Group that renders manipulable 3D

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models of the

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. Several layers, from

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tissues down to

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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. The website uses

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and

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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

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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

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, 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

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{{Google LLC 2010 software Anatomical simulation Anatomy websites Discontinued Google services Google services Web applications

Technology

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