Google Body was a web application that presents 3D anatomical

Anatomy

Anatomy is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy , and plant anatomy...

 models of the human body

Human body

The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life...

. Several layers from muscle

Muscle

Muscle is a contractile tissue of animals and is derived from the mesodermal layer of embryonic germ cells. Muscle cells contain contractile filaments that move past each other and change the size of the cell. They are classified as skeletal, cardiac, or smooth muscles. Their function is to...

 tissues down to blood vessels can be made transparent to allow better study of individual body parts. Most of the body parts are labeled.

Google Body was launched on December 15, 2010. On April Fools Day 2011, users were greeted with the anatomy of a cow on the home page.

As of October 13, 2011, due to Google's wind down of Google Labs, Google Body is no longer in operation. Instead the experiment will move forward as Zygote Body.

Technology

The imagery models is based on the data from Zygote Media Group

Zygote Media Group

Zygote Media Group is a developer company for computer-generated 3D graphical software. The company was formed in 1994, with initial emphase on models targetting the usage in the records industry product releases...

. The website uses WebGL

WebGL

WebGL is a software library that extends the capability of the JavaScript programming language to allow it to generate interactive 3D graphics within any compatible web browser...

 technology to display 3D images inside the web-browser without requiring the installation of external plug-ins
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