This video was created by NCI Vizlab's Ajay Limaye using data from the Visible Human Project.

The Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualisation applications. A male and a female cadaver were cut into thin slices which were then photographed and digitized. This video shows the males leg.

The male cadaver, a 38-year-old Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection, was encased and frozen in a gelatin and water mixture in order to stabilize the specimen for cutting. The specimen was then "cut" in the axial plane at 1 millimeter intervals. Each of the resulting 1,871 "slices" were photographed in both analog and digital, yielding 15 gigabytes of data.

The project is run by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) under the direction of Michael J. Ackerman. Planning began in 1989; the data set of the male was completed in November 1994 and the one of the female in November 1995.

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