Kmeans Clustering of a hand image

Ape Hands

Paolo the nattily dressed English accented zoologist met me before opening at Dublin's Dead Zoo . There is a great podcast of him here . He explained to me all the facts below. First thing is human skeletons tend to be many different people because that’s just how bones were collected Animals specimens were usually collected for the task so are more complete. With an experts eye Paolo can show you where the animal was shot. for example the apes in the pelvis and the arm Or in the case of the polar bear 19 times when he wandered into a camp and all the explorers just started blasting away. Then they ate him. But avoided the liver as that has so much Vitamin D it’ll kill you. Kill you by causing excess bone growth . " A polar bear's liver contains between 24,000 and 35,000 IU per gram. Compare that to the tolerable upper level of vitamin A intake for a healthy adult human: 10,000 IU’  Onto hands Orangutans have really short thumbs not going past the knuckle. T

Microscopic surface tension

Pouring a small drop of a softdrink onto the palm Viewed through the microscope, we can see small particles on the surface of the liquid. Similarly we can see the surface tension holding the liquid in a roughly hemi-spherical shape on the palm. For some reason the group decided to pour pepper into a palm and microscope it.

Analysis we did not get to do

In any short hackathon there are things you do not have the time or the equipment to do. I will list some of these below in case we can get them done in future. Medical: MRI scan, XRay, EEG scan while hand in use, EMG and nerve conduction study, grip test A Map made out of the shape of a hand Agar of bacteria and fungus grown from the hand Makers: 3d printed, laser cut, laser scanner and other hackerspace tools to recreate and examine a hand. VR: Like the Augmented Hands Project which explores how we react to changes in our own hands. Glovers, Hologram,Chinese medicine, Palmistry, hand gestures, UV light,sign language.

Back of my hand

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