onions

I cut up an onion into many slices :

Then I made an animated gif. Then I modified Kyle Macdonald’s code for basically, extruding the layers of a gif out into multiple frames.

Here is the code in open frameworks for reinventing the 3d onion.

Basically, an MRI and CT scan take cross sectional images of a shape in space. So by slicing the onion into multiple cross sectional images, and making a really DIY version of a 3d scan,I can therefore extrude it into space.

Here are some shots of the onions:

Here are some shots from other MRI’s: