{"id":1825,"date":"2009-07-22T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/cat-scans-as-fine-art\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T20:27:30","slug":"cat-scans-as-fine-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/22\/cat-scans-as-fine-art\/","title":{"rendered":"CAT Scans as Fine Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/dn17411-art-made-in-a-ct-scanner\/1\" target=\"_blank\">from New Scientist<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/data\/galleries\/dn17411-art-made-in-a-ct-scanner\/cancerskulll.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"467\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Spoke wheel&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0<br style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>This is a CT scan of a human skull.\u00a0<br style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>The red ring-like pattern is cancer of the thyroid which has become detached from the thyroid and deposited itself on the skull bone, shown as rainbow-coloured layers.\u00a0<br style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>The yellow area shows a cut section at the top of the skull, which is due to the top part of the skull not being included in the CT scanning.\u00a0<br style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>The cancer has caused the bones of the skull to expand.\u00a0<br style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>Fung has used a post-production trick he developed, known as the &#8220;rainbow technique&#8221; to add coloured contour lines to this image. This enhances the 3D effect.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">(Image: Kai-hung Fung)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/dn17411-art-made-in-a-ct-scanner\/1\" target=\"_blank\">click to view more scans at NewScientist.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from New Scientist Spoke wheel&#8217;\u00a0This is a CT scan of a human skull.\u00a0The red ring-like pattern is cancer of the thyroid which has become detached from the thyroid and deposited itself on the skull bone, shown as rainbow-coloured layers.\u00a0The yellow area shows a cut section at the top of the skull, which is due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}