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‘One Man’s Land’ by Heather Barnett, 2002
Stainless steel etching

‘One Man’s Land’ is a precise and accurate map of a young man’s face, with contour lines etched into stainless steel. It was produced using 3D mapping technologies usually employed to produce Ordinance Survey maps and height surveys for communication companies.

The image produced represents accurate height information generated from stereo photographs of the sitter.

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Detail from ‘SENSE’ by Annie Cattrell, 2001-03
Transparent resin and rapid prototyped resin

This sequence of sculptures illustrates the activity patterns of the human brain as it responds to the five senses: touch, smell, sight, hearing and taste. Scans of a subject’s brain using each of the senses were produced with functional magnetic resonance imaging. These scans were then converted into three-dimensional physical structures of amber resin using a rapid-prototyping process. The elegant simplicity of the sculptures belies the complexity of the technology required to make them.

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Untitled by Michael Hopkin, 2004
White ink on slate

While influenced by X-rays and the structures of the human body, this painting is not a strict representation. In a process that is a combination of both painting and drawing, the artist applies white ink to slate and then uses an eraser and stiff bristle brushes to create the almost abstract composition.

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