STUDENT PROJECT © UIC
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Informational Aesthetics II
2 2012
Eye3D was created by Semay Johnston, a Chicago-based medical illustrator and interactive media developer. The project began as part of her graduate research at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Biomedical Visualization program.
INSPIRATIONEye3D was inspired by the award-winning project The Virtual Eye —an interactive, three-dimensional stereoscopic model that depicted human eye anatomy in normal and common disease states and demonstrated drug delivery methods for treatment of these diseases.
Along with its companion project, The Virtual House, which simulated defects in the visual field caused by various ocular diseases, The Virtual Eye was developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago by a multi-disciplinary, collaborative team led by Mary Rasmussen consisting of the VRMedlab, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, College of Applied Health Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, and Allergan Inc.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSMany thanks to the following people who contributed to the production of Eye3D: Committee members Donna Hughes, Luc Renambot, Daniel Sauter, and Scott Dixon for their expertise and guidance. Mary Rasmussen and the many others at the UIC VR Medlab who developed The Virtual Eye, which inspired Eye3D.
