university of calgary

Inside a CAVE

A 3-D digital patient that could save your life

Hovering above the floor in a darkened room called the CAVE (for cave automated virtual environment) is the larger-than-life-size virtual patient CAVEman, the worlds most sophisticated digital model of the human body. To create it, scientists at the University of Calgary and graphic artists used anatomy texts and specimens to render every organ, bone, nerve and biological system into detailed 3-D images.

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