#Skin Question
02-Aug-95 22:34:59
Sb: #183127-#Skin Question
Fm: PETER CASANO 71172,2325
To: david W. mennenoh 71561,2343
I'm tracing CT scans and lofting them. Tracing programs would help if I didn't
have to end up with a specific vertex count at each level. Its easier for me
now to use Corel to manually trace over the scans and then copy the tracing to
the next level and adjust it to the next scan. I've modeled the human nasal
sinuses this way, took me months and ended up with 100,000 vertexes. Its being
used to train sinus surgeons (I'm one) using stereo renderings and models of
instruments in conjunction with stereoscopic video tapes of operations and
cadaveric dissections. Next is the middle and inner ear, its complicated and
I'm hoping not to take 6 months to model it too. The voxel reconstructoin
programs for CT scans are out there but you can't animate mucous flow, cilia
motion or blood vessels on them. Thanks for any help, I hear Corel 6.0 may have
some tools that will help, plus I hope to run it on my new Alpha. Maybe 3DS NT
will have different tools.