{"id":630,"date":"2011-06-13T13:54:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=630"},"modified":"2015-04-20T17:37:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T00:37:30","slug":"added-cat-virtual-dissection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2011\/06\/13\/added-cat-virtual-dissection\/","title":{"rendered":"Added Cat Virtual Dissection"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was finally was able to compile and organize all the photos taken of the cat dissection. \u00a0The virtual cat dissection<\/a> is simply a collection of pages that walk you through the dissection and point out various structures. \u00a0Photos are labeled to help supplement a real dissection done in a lab. \u00a0I did encounter some design issues with how to organize the pages. \u00a0Not all the cat structures fit into perfect categories, like the spleen. \u00a0I tried to organize the pages in the same way students walk through the cat dissection, so it wasn’t realistic to do only the digestive system and only the urinary system. \u00a0In the end, I decided to just focus on regions of the cat and the organs housed within them.<\/p>\n

The whole process has been quite time consuming but I am happy with the results. \u00a0 My photography skills can use improvements and a new camera this year has improved the quality of the photos. \u00a0 In addition to the virtual cat dissection pages, the galleries \u00a0have all the pictures of the cat (even the bad ones). \u00a0 I picked specific pictures for the virtual pages that most clearly illustrate the structure’s location and appearance.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this year we had a shortage of male cats, and the two we had in the lab were neutered, which means I do not have proper images of the male cat reproductive system. \u00a0Hopefully, I will have better luck next year.<\/p>\n

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Lastly, here are some of the specifics of how I made the pages and adjusted the images.<\/p>\n

The photos were taken with a Nikon Coolpix S8100. \u00a0In most cases, I had the flash on auto after discovering that the flash wouldn’t normally go off with the lighting in the lab, and the photos would be too dark. \u00a0 Even with the flash, shadows and contrast were sometimes not the greatest. \u00a0Turns out, these new cameras are great at faces and scenes, but they don’t seem to know how to deal with anatomy. \u00a0I also used the macro setting to get close-up images.<\/p>\n

The pictures were then imported to the computer. \u00a0I used Google’s Picasa<\/a> to adjust the lighting on many of the pictures. \u00a0Picasa is great at just auto adjustments, if you click the “I’m feeling lucky” button, often it fixes lighting and contrast problems with minimal work. \u00a0Picasa also allows for the exporting of photos with a watermark (the little anatomycorner.com) in the corner of all the pages. \u00a0 The photos are also hosted on Picasa which allows me to just use their gallery widgets. \u00a0If you’ve had experience with WordPress, then you know that WordPress galleries are very clunky to use. \u00a0With Picasa, changes to my gallery \u00a0are easy and automatically reflected in the gallery at anatomycorner.com.<\/p>\n

While I love Picasa’s features for some things, I noted that Picasa is not great with adding text and arrows. \u00a0Picnik can add text, but it’s really limiting with the arrows and text tools. \u00a0For adding arrows, I went to Sumopaint.com<\/a>. \u00a0 Sumopaint is an online image editor that has a ton of features, many of which I haven’t really used.<\/p>\n

I’m still not completely settled on my image editor. \u00a0I know that Photoshop has way too many features that I won’t use to justify the price tag so I am in a constant state of looking for image editors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was finally was able to compile and organize all the photos taken of the cat dissection. \u00a0The virtual cat dissection is simply a collection of pages that walk you through the dissection and point out various structures. \u00a0Photos are labeled to help supplement a real dissection done in a lab. \u00a0I did encounter some design issues with how to organize the pages. \u00a0Not all the cat structures fit into perfect categories, like the spleen. \u00a0I tried to organize the pages in the same way students walk through the cat dissection, so it wasn’t realistic to do only the digestive <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}