{"id":11485,"date":"2021-10-22T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.3d4medical.com\/blog\/female-model-countdown-3d-update"},"modified":"2024-01-17T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T12:33:50","slug":"female-model-3d-team-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/blog\/female-model-3d-team-update","title":{"rendered":"Female model countdown: 3D update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi,&nbsp;I&#8217;m Matthew, one of the 3D artists working on the new<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Female Model&nbsp;for Complete Anatomy! \ud83d\udc4b Today I&#8217;ll be following on from Ashton, who last week discussed the research that went into the female model.&nbsp;I will&nbsp;be&nbsp;specifically&nbsp;talking through some of the 3D challenges we faced in producing the female model.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uniquely female<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When approaching the skeleton, we wanted to make sure it was&nbsp;<strong>uniquely female<\/strong>. We did so by using dimensions&nbsp;typically found in females&nbsp;and established the correct carrying angle in the arm, and the Q-angle at the hip.&nbsp;<strong>This ensured&nbsp;anatomical landmarks<\/strong>&nbsp;and proportions were placed correctly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learnt early on that the pelvic bones are often taught to medical students as containing the key skeletal differences between males and females.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The female pelvic bones have unique differences such as:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>An&nbsp;inferiorly facing sacrum&nbsp;along with&nbsp;a&nbsp;corresponding increased curvature of&nbsp;the&nbsp;lumbar spine&nbsp;<\/li><li>A wider but shorter ilia&nbsp;<\/li><li>A wider pubic angle,&nbsp;which all contribute to a&nbsp;larger,&nbsp;more oval bowl&nbsp;with more volume than that of the male &#8211; which is of course important for childbirth<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I also learnt that these are not the only major differences between the male and female skeleton.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many differences are also found in the skull, such as:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The brow of the frontal bone is&nbsp;less pronounced&nbsp;<\/li><li>The&nbsp;mandible is narrower, and delicate compared to the broad square jaw found in the male.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The mastoid process&nbsp;is&nbsp;much&nbsp;less pronounced,&nbsp;and&nbsp;attachment sites&nbsp;for muscles are less roughened.&nbsp;<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An inside-out approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With the skeleton in&nbsp;its correct position, we began modelling and texturing the skin,&nbsp;giving form and character&nbsp;to the model.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally, we would do this after the musculature was in place, but&nbsp;as this was a&nbsp;brand-new&nbsp;model, we wanted&nbsp;a&nbsp;clear goal to&nbsp;aim for&nbsp;so that our model was&nbsp;both anatomically accurate, but also&nbsp;aesthetically characteristic&nbsp;of the female form.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And&nbsp;so,&nbsp;we worked on both the superficial and deep structures of the model at the same time, continuously cross-checking our work with one another, making sure everything was fitting correctly and&nbsp;adjusting&nbsp;where necessary.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Underrepresented, but now ready to be understood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Although a large amount of our work went into sexual dimorphism throughout the whole&nbsp;body,&nbsp;most of&nbsp;our time and effort went into&nbsp;the female specific organs such as the reproductive system and breast tissue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the first big challenges for us&nbsp;in creating a full female model, is&nbsp;that our model&nbsp;stands in the anatomical position,&nbsp;but in a lot of&nbsp;textbooks, female reproductive anatomy such as the genitalia,&nbsp;is represented in the lithotomy position&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;where the model\u2019s legs are spaced apart.&nbsp;Using the anatomical position, we had&nbsp;less space to work with, but still had to clearly communicate the detailed anatomy of this region.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After many review stages, we feel that we struck the correct balance&nbsp;of the&nbsp;two and&nbsp;maintained&nbsp;the detailed anatomy while keeping visual clarity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared to previous illustrations and representations of the clitoris, we made sure that we represented the classic J shape appearance found in research papers and scan data.&nbsp;This seemed like a&nbsp;simple task at first and on its own it was, but actually&#8230;&nbsp;it was&nbsp;just the first step&nbsp;in correctly representing the surrounding anatomy.&nbsp;We took this opportunity to model the external genitalia, along with the vaginal canal in full to make sure we could accommodate the&nbsp;correctly shaped clitoris.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started by using&nbsp;measurements to establish and maintain the correct relationships&nbsp;between the structures of the genitalia, such as the&nbsp;frenulum of labia minora, the&nbsp;caruncles&nbsp;and importantly, the&nbsp;urethral orifice&nbsp;and&nbsp;the unique relationship of&nbsp;the&nbsp;anterior wall of the vaginal canal.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We made sure to preserve the relationship of the genitalia with relevant pelvic structures, most notably the&nbsp;pubic symphysis and suspensory ligament, a point of anchorage for the clitoris.&nbsp;We also created a&nbsp;natural drop&nbsp;in the pelvic floor due to gravity, which contributes to the&nbsp;partial closing of the vaginal canal&nbsp;by the anterior wall.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also had to&nbsp;consider&nbsp;not only the more visible, superficial surfaces, but also&nbsp;the negative space behind them&nbsp;\u2013 working hard to&nbsp;maintain visual quality AND clarity. We chose to&nbsp;remove any spaces&nbsp;between the vaginal canal and external genitalia, creating what appears to be&nbsp;one continuous, joint structure&nbsp;\u2013 but still has all the necessary individual features.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And just when we thought it couldn&#8217;t get any more complex, we decided to add&nbsp;sagittal&nbsp;and&nbsp;coronal&nbsp;cross-sections.&nbsp;We think this paid-off well as it allows&nbsp;our&nbsp;users&nbsp;to view the internal surfaces of the vaginal canal from any angle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Even more detail<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with all these additions, we have also created micro models for the clitoris and ovary. These highly detailed models will&nbsp;help&nbsp;our users&nbsp;get a&nbsp;clear and&nbsp;in-depth&nbsp;understanding of&nbsp;these extremely complex structures.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also updated&nbsp;the breast tissue, which has&nbsp;received&nbsp;improved visuals and accuracies, even including details&nbsp;such as the&nbsp;greater distribution of lobules in the inferior portion of the breast compared to the superior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We quartered the breast tissue, so that we could represent cross sections typically seen in anatomical texts &#8211; giving our users the option to view it from different perspectives.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between the research and inventive modelling techniques, I&nbsp;and the team&nbsp;sincerely hope that you enjoy learning human anatomy through our new female model, a model that we feel is in equal measure,&nbsp;is&nbsp;accurate, detailed, and easy to learn from. Be sure to keep an eye out over the coming weeks when this groundbreaking update will be available to download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ollowing on from Ashton, who last week discussed the research that went into the female model.\u00a0I will\u00a0be\u00a0specifically\u00a0talking through some of the 3D challenges we faced in producing the female model.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/blog\/female-model-3d-team-update\">Leer art\u00edculo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11485"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21115,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions\/21115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}