Sorry, can't help. I actually tried this once, coding in reference
points from Paxinos & Watson in 3-D and reading them into a home-grown
3-D graphics program, using curve smoothing to connect the points, and
displaying them on a graphics monitor or Laserjet. The target was the
lamina terminalis from OX all the way up to DG, including fx, AC, vhc,
etc. (Yeah, I know, where the H is *etc*?) Anyway, I got something I
could rotate, all right, but it looked nothing like the brain. The
successive slides of P&W aren't really closely aligned, it seems..., but
also representing fiber bundles with a cable drawing and smoothing
program is for the birds. If you attempt a 3-D from P&W, don't do it
that way :)
If someone has a line on a really good effort at this please be sure to
post it. It's likely to be general interest -- and I mean a *PC*
version, not a Hypercard stack on a MAC, I think there is already a
MAC version out.
Doug Fitts
dfitts at u.washington.edukate at cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Kate Jeffery) writes:
>I'm looking for a 3-D representation of the rat brain, with special
>reference to the hippocampal formation and surrounding structures. I
>was wondering if anyone knows of a possible source, before I sit down
>and trace in the Paxinos and Watson atlas by hand!
>Yours hopefully,
>Kate