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- Find a complete dead body and boil down the carcass over a few days, discarding the scum and keeping the bones. Alternatively buy a human skeleton from abroad, though this has been illegal for a number of years.
- Take bones and place them individually in a Computer Tomography (CT) scanner. Set the resolution of each slice to approximately half a millimetre and then scan the entire length of each bone.
- Using one (or more) Silicon Graphics workstations (depending on budget and time) rebuild the slice data into something resembling the original bone.
- When you have enough bones, try to position them together on screen to replicate a human skeleton (you may need help here from either a book or anatomy expert).
- Render pictures from your rebuilt skeleton.
- Write a computer program that displays the pictures in the right order, with accompanying text that relates to all the bones. Include in the program the facility to click on any bone to highlight and label it (you may wish to return to step 5 to help with this stage).
- Add Sound Clips, Dissection Pictures and an easy-to-follow Quiz into the program. Make sure that there are suitable prizes at the end of the quiz.
- Add additional pictures indicating the positions of all the muscle attachments on the bones (you'll need to repeat Step 5 again).
- Add even more pictures showing different regions of the bones indicated in another color (repeat Step 5 yet again).
- If you've got time, add an Index to the entire disk, as well as options to Copy and Print the images. Also add some special print-quality images (you'll need to do Step 5 again).
- Test your program (many people decide this step is optional - it's entirely up to you)
- Bung the whole lot onto a CD-Rom, wrap in pretty packaging and then sell.
There, nothing to it really, is there? Shouldn't take you more than six months or so. Alternatively, in the best traditions of TV cookery programmes, here's one I made earlier.
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