The idea is to eventually be able to design models of lighting rigs for a variety of theatres. (Theaters if you spell it that way!)  The ultimate aim is for lighting engineers and directors to work without requiring the whole theatre and cast to be present.

This early version uses the free Director Shockwave plugin and should be adequate for Drama and Science lessons in schools.

You can 

• move in and out with the mouse or the control panel
  
• pull the lights round their axes
• move the lights with the side control panel
• point the lights with the bottom control panel
• change the light cone angle
• turn the lights off and on
• change colour and intensity
• move or hide the people
• drag the stage background out of the way
  

If anyone wants it this early model here will become an accurate interactive model for a number of theatres with complete design, save, import and export facilities.  Most importantly it will have a saveable timeline so that you can experiment and save lighting concepts for whole shows It would be good if you could import your local stage's lighting setup and position a different number of actors on stage at different points in the time line and then save the lighting changes for that as well. 

 An anatomy exploration tool for school children developed for digitalbrain is available here.

This is part of a project to put an interactive human anatomy model online for schools. When looking at it first find the light and turn it on! Buttons show and hide parts of the body or move it in a controlled way. You can also drag the model about in any direction with the mouse or use the arrow keys to move in and out or around. To reset press the F5 key.

The early versions are aimed at schools and people wishing to look at human anatomy in an interesting and interactive way. Although some nurses and trainee medical students have found the model useful they usually require a more detailed tool.

The version of the model here is about 1 Mb, or for more anatomy information and the model visit anatomy.digitalbrain.com. A slightly larger version (1.6Mb) is here.

Besides being useful for science lessons this is also very useful for art lessons.

Quick but illustrative models and animations of the skeleton, main organs and main muscle groups are available here. Other models demonstrate the way organs or muscles work. These simple models are suitable for school children and many require the free Flash or Director Shockwave plugins. More advanced and accurate tools are available on request.

Some of this content is freely available. However, to access some of it you do need a username and password and some of it you will have to request personally.

Digitalbrain produce superlative content such as a skeleton explorer, muscle explorer and complete learning objects on the working of muscles for FE and HE sports science students.

This model illustrates the way muscles contract to move the leg bones. Although, as an early version it is quite good and is initially quite impressive it isn't entirely accurate and when you look carefully you do not need to be an anatomist to spot some of the bugs.

You can see a more realistic volley kick motion with just the skin and bones playing at about half speed in most web browsers, with the bones and muscles again at half speed and here with bones skin and muscles running about real speed.

The model was built, animated and rendered in 3ds Max and the motion is fairly accurate as it is based on three dimensional motion capture of a real kick (usually called mocap). The rendered images were then turned into a Flash movie. It is also possible to show the animated model on the web in a 3d package using suitable technology such as Wirefusion, Director or the like.