Medical Visualization: Egyptology in 3D
b'The 3D visualization specialists at MAAT3D, a French association of scientists and educators, sought a way to improve the visualization of mummies, treatment of patients needing reconstructive facial surgery, and creation of medical illustrations. They also wanted to display visualizations of mummies more effectively to museum audiences. The processing power of Mac Pro Intel workstations enables MAAT3D to render 3D visualizations in VGStudio Max 2.0 in real time. The Mac platform, which costs less than competing workstations, gives the MAAT3D team a more stable operating system. They use Final Cut Pro with Motion 2 and Shake to create exciting animations of mummy visualizations, which can be shown to museum audiences in theaters or on iPods and MAAT3D will integrate into its display systems. The powerful, stable Mac computing platform provides faster rendering at reduced hardware costs.'