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part names pointed out by the teacher. The right figure of Figure 5 is another example,
a hurt model. Similarly to the left figure, each student can learn the structure of a hurt
and its part names individually on the web at any time and at any location.
Fig. 5. Web 3D content examples of medical education
2) Image Viewer
As educational contents, images are common and often used. In this case, WebIB can
be used as an image viewer. Although WebIB contents are 3D graphics contents, us-
ing the texture mapping mechanism, any image data can be displayed in a 3D space.
The left figure of Figure 6 shows an image of a certain typhoon [13] provided by
NASA and the right figure of Figure 6 shows the same typhoon image looks from the
very far viewpoint. It is possible to manipulate the image for the pan and the zoom
like Google Maps operations. If a teacher have high resolution images as educational
materials, he/she can provides such images with his/her students on the web like
Google Maps service. Students can interactively make a pan or a zoom towards any
part of an image that they want to look. Figure 7 shows another examples, CT images
as educational contents of medicine.
Fig. 6. Typhoon images as educational content examples
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