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Fruit and Vegetable Medley From left to right: durian, mushrooms, and tomato.
If you are what you eat, then it makes sense to know what your food actually is. Taking this notion to a perhaps extravagant but nonetheless entertaining degree, someone out there decided to run a bunch of common fruits and vegetables through an MRI machine. The resulting videos and images let you see the Earth’s bounty in a whole new way (literally).
If that’s not cool enough, someone else who saw the MRI foods on Reddit decided to stitch all the corn images together with the modeling software Maya, creating a scrumptious 3-D model just like Grandma used to make. Dig in.
[Above, the MRI cross section of a head of broccoli. Below, 3-D modeling software puts the broccoli together again]
Check out the video MRI fly-throughs of several different fruits and veggies here.
[Inside Insides via Kottke]
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Awesome... new full-screen desktop backgrounds to search for. My Cassini space pics were getting a little stale.
It's pretty sad that these vegetables get better healthcare than some Americans....
Perhaps science can finally answer life's most persistent question... What gas fills the cavity in the center of a squash?
@Dubi0us stop flipping us off you cyberpunk I will now vote to decrease healthcare and increase research of healthy foods because dollar for dollar it will save more lives spent in that direction anyhow
@Polymath - You too? = )
Moon born, that is a question I never thought of. Now you've blown my mind.