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the Visible Man

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the Visible Man
A 3-D computer-generated 'cadaver,' created from thousands of images of a human body donated to science, collected with state-of-the-art photography of cryosections and imaging–CT, MRI techniques. Cf VOXEL-MAN.


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Methods: Cardiac resynchronization therapy was simulated on the Visible Man and a patient data-set including fiber orientation and ventricular heterogeneity.
After devoting the first half of the book to his childhood (cross-dressing curiosities, fallout shelters, an abandoned diary), he abruptly shifts away from the suburban image of brothers trying to assemble a model of the Visible Man soon after their father's death, and fast-forwards to forays abroad in the cities of Morocco and Europe years later in "Some Threads Through the Medina.
This mordant hybrid of the Visible Man, Nanook of the North, and Snow White rests on a forty-inch-high cube with a refrigerated top; frost from the viewer's condensed breath embeds and partially covers him.
 
 
 
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