Masseter

This exper­i­ment­al pro­ject blends tra­di­tion­al sci­entif­ic illus­tra­tion with mod­ern digit­al tools. The focus is the equine mas­seter muscle—one of the main jaw muscles in a horse—transformed into an edu­ca­tion­al visu­al using 3D ren­der­ing.

To begin, I scanned a real horse skull with a high-pre­ci­sion 3D scan­ner to cap­ture its exact struc­ture. Based on ana­tom­ic­al text­books and con­sulta­tions with veter­in­ary experts, I digit­ally recon­struc­ted the muscle sys­tem. The goal was to cre­ate an accur­ate and enga­ging visu­al­iz­a­tion for edu­ca­tion­al use.

I explored dif­fer­ent tex­tures to under­stand how best to dis­play muscle struc­ture. The res­ult is a clear, detailed 3D mod­el that can sup­port learn­ing in both veter­in­ary and design con­texts. This approach shows how digit­al meth­ods can enhance sci­entif­ic com­mu­nic­a­tion and make com­plex ana­tom­ic­al sys­tems easi­er to under­stand.