ZygoteBody, formerlyGoogle Body, is a web application by Zygote Media Group that renders manipulable 3Danatomical models of thehuman body. Several layers, frommuscle tissues down toblood vessels, can be removed or made transparent to allow better study of individual body parts. Most of the body parts are labelled and are searchable.
The human models are based on data from the Zygote Media Group. The website usesJavaScript andWebGL technology to display 3D images inside theweb browser without requiring the installation of external browserplug-ins.[citation needed]
ZygoteBody was launched as Google Body on December 15, 2010. OnApril Fools' Day 2011, users were greeted with the anatomy of acow on the home page.[1] The cow modelis still available as part of the open-3d-viewer open source project.
As part of the wind down onGoogle Labs, it was announced that Google Body will be shut down but will continue to be maintained by Zygote as ZygoteBody. On October 13, 2011, the Google Body site was shut down. Then, on January 9, 2012, ZygoteBody was launched and core code base (with the Google Cow model as a demo) was made available as an open source project calledopen-3d-viewer.[2]
