Doctors Need Digital Art

No, this isn't a masked super villain from the next Batman movie. (If it were, I'd leave you to coin a name for him!) It's the latest thing in digital art, simplifying complex 3D body scans to help patients understand what's going on inside them. Initial trials on 18 patients look good. 3D computer artist John McGhee of the University of Dundee presented his research at Siggraph 2007 in San Diego this week.