Keynote

Animating Anatomy or Beyond the Virtual Cadaver.

Chris Briscoe

Primal Pictures Ltd., London, UK

“Interactive Anatomy”: Primal Pictures first step towards a flight simulator for medics, is done! A feast of dramatic 3D reconstructions from the project interspersed with illuminating remarks.

What next?... Make it move! Make it work!

A look at the first of the second generation projects “Interactive Functional Anatomy” and a preview of its successor.

The way forward: a peek at our research project “Algorithmic Human Anatomy”.

Chris Briscoe is creative director at Primal Pictures Ltd and its co-founder.

Trained originally as a sculptor, Chris specialised in kinetic and computer controlled work. These experiments led him into computer image making.

In the seventies, he set up and ran the computer graphics and experimental art unit at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London. This was a pioneering unit that brought together many disciplines: fine art, film making, electronic music and computer technology.

In 1981, he established Digital Pictures, which was the first 3-D computer graphics facility in the UK. Digital Pictures was one of a handful of ground breaking companies that introduced photo-realistic computer graphics to the public. Also In the early 1980's Chris collaborated with the Medical Physics Department at University College on a project to assist cranio-facial surgeons.

Primal Pictures was established with Laurie Wiseman in 1991 with the goal of creating the only complete and medically accurate 3D model of the human anatomy. In July 2003 it completed this mission. The 3D anatomy software is widely adopted in education and it is currently used for patient, practitioner and student education in over 20 countries. In 2004 over half a million students will learn anatomy using Primal software.

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