PROJECT: SEGREGATION
This personal project came a bit unexpected. A friend of mine had a medical exam including computer tomography. They gave her a link to an online portal where she could look at the results herself. I found it super interesting and had the idea of using the images to recreate a 3D model of her head.
During the process I liked the idea of turning it into the title/closing sequences of some fictional series so here you see the results.
Scroll down for more info on the process.
During the process I liked the idea of turning it into the title/closing sequences of some fictional series so here you see the results.
Scroll down for more info on the process.
BREAKDOWN / PROCESS
The medical images were accesible through an online portal using a webplayer. Unfortunately there was no simple way to bulk download all 165 images. So I employed a little script that advanced the webplayer frame by frame and downloaded the images one by one.
It took a while but in the end I had 165 PNGs to work from.
After I got the data properly imported I could use all of Houdini's goodness to play around with it.
It was also just very interesting to just filter specific density-values and see what comes out of it.
Did you know that teeth are the most dense material in our bodies, much denser than bones? I certainly didn't!
I also expected the computer-tomograph to mainly detect things like bones or maybe the softer tissue. But it was even possible to see the hair of my friend - very fascinating.
Of course I only had those 165 images from the webplayer in reduced resolution that also were only 8-Bit PNGs. So not comparable to high-res images in 32-Bit or even higher detail.
Still a fun project after all.
For all 3D-related tasks I used only Houdini. Everything was rendered with Redshift plus some minor post-work in After Effects.
As the final mesh was pretty highres, conversion in Redshift took quite a lot of time. So I'm looking forward to try out Karma XPU in one of the next projects!
As the final mesh was pretty highres, conversion in Redshift took quite a lot of time. So I'm looking forward to try out Karma XPU in one of the next projects!
