Gross Anatomy of the Ear

Acknowledgements

WARNING: The VRML models on these Web pages are preliminary and are not necessarily 100% accurate. The 'wrinkles' in them are artefacts due to mis-alignment of the histological sections from which the models were created.

Topics

External ear	Middle ear	Inner ear

System requirements

The interactive models should be usable on any system having a VRML 2 viewer.

It is recommended that your graphics system be set to a colour depth of at least 16 bits (32768 colours).

The following are configurations that are known to work:

Windows

• Operating system: Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0
• VRML viewer:
• Cosmo Player 2.0 or higher (also included with some versions of Netscape Communicator 4.x).
• Cosmo Player provides the best results if OpenGL drivers are installed (Windows 95 Service Pack 1, Windows 98 and NT 4.0 include these drivers; older versions of Windows 95 do not).

Mac

• Operating system: MacOS 7.6.1, 8.0 or 8.1 (Power Mac)
• VRML viewer: Cosmo Player 2.1 (available for the Macintosh as a pre-release download at the moment)

Unix

• Operating system: IRIX 6.2 (SGI)
• VRML viewer: SGI Cosmo Player 1.0.2 for IRIX