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Artistic and scientific anatomical models from Anatomy Tools


Yesterday, I blogged about the photos I’d caught of some beautifully detailed artist’s anatomical models on sale in the dealer’s room at the Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco. I ended up going back later in the day to buy one of the models (they brought their “slightly irregular” stock to the show and are selling it at half off), and I got to talking with the staff about their wares.

It turns out that they’re on something of a holy mission to introduce high quality, affordable artistically rendered anatomical models to the fields of science, art and medicine, replacing the standard, multi-thousand-dollar, low-quality anatomical models with sub-$500 versions that are much better rendered and easier to grasp.

But these are more than teaching aids or artist’s reference — they’re absolutely drop-dead gorgeous sculptures, created by a Bay Area artist called Andrew Cawrse. The more I look at the model sitting here on my desk, the more enthralled I am with it, and the more clever grace-notes I spot in the various cutaways that make clear a thousand myriad elements of anatomy (and I had to laugh to discover that the cross-sectioned penis is attached by a magnet, so it can be removed by customers who aren’t allowed to show penises in their workplaces).

Freedom of Teach/Anatomy Tools

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