Anatomy and Art

A friend recently sent me a link to some images by Travis Bedel.  His pieces are called anatomical collages in the writing about them.

This article in Juxtapoz shows a nice little collection of his work.  His anatomy looks right on.  And the fantastic floral motif seems like a fine thing to share on this the spring equinox.

Enjoy!

A few weeks back I did a little work on an inner ear illustration.  The head that I was designing to is copyright protected, but the main part of the inner ear itself wound up looking something like this.

There were actually several versions, some involving the ear canal and some not, but probably the coolest part about playing around with this was having these 3D models to play with.

http://audilab.bmed.mcgill.ca/~daren/3Dear/3d_models.html

Pulling those models into Meshlab I was able to rotate them to whatever angle I found convenient and view with or without the eardrum, or ossicles and what have you.  This is one of many snapshots I took from within Meshlab.

I would definitely recommend checking out those models to anyone either illustrating or studying the inner ear or any part of it.