r/linux • u/47th-Element • 1h ago

Discussion Is there a human anatomy atlas app for Linux?

I'm a physician and I often need to refresh my memory of human anatomy. I find those interactive 3d atlas apps very helpful, however I could not find any native Linux application for this at all!

I could only find Z-Anatomy project which runs on Blender, the desktop app is exclusively for Windows. I don't want to boot Windows, set up wine or waydroid, is there any alternative? (I would rather not install Blender but I will if it's my only option).

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u/Infinite_Telephone11 55m ago

You're basically stuck with blender or a web app, nothing native exists that doesn't feel like it was coded in 2003

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u/47th-Element 44m ago

Unfortunately :(

I hope that someone someday will carry out this task and create a native Linux app, I think the medical community that uses Linux would appreciate it!

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u/toptnc 37m ago

Windows apps usually run fine with Wine or Proton, but I don't know native apps. Maybe web apps

Do you know this? https://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

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u/RabbitInRabbitHole 27m ago

z-anatomy on blender takes about 12gb of ram space. if u dont have a gpu it would be a nightmare

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u/47th-Element 24m ago

Holy shit, my laptop is Intel i3 core 8th gen with a weak igpu and 8gb of ram 😂

I think I found something, Anatom 3D, they do offer an AppImage for Linux. It is not open source but it is free. I'm downloading it as we speak to see if it is any good.

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u/RabbitInRabbitHole 19m ago

i just tried out z anatomy on my blender. i have a system similar to yours. it force quit multiple times. only renedered the skeletal system. nothing above it. i got curious about this topic once u posted it 😅

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u/47th-Element 16m ago

Well, I'm done downloading Anatom 3D, it is relatively lighter (there is still some lagging but I guess that's expected on my machine) and first impression is good. Try it out! :)

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u/RabbitInRabbitHole 6m ago

looks great.