At first glance they appear to be a fusion of photography and digital editing, but in fact Pecheux and Renaud used some very clever body paint, makeup, lighting and props to create the illusion of digital textures on human bodies.
Others, such as futurist Ray Kurzweil, foresee digital technologies melding with human bodies.
In Paul Chan's digital projection "1st Light" (2005), human bodies fall, consumer objects float and flocks of birds dart this way and that.
Previous episodes of Radio 4's absorbing Digital Human series have focused on taste, body and mind and they're all worth a listen.
Produced by the group Random International, "Rain Room" welcomes visitors into a large chamber in which water showers from the ceiling but ceases wherever human bodies are detected by digital gadgetry.
Digital human models have been developed to study body kinematics and perform dynamics analyses.
In this respect, the novel enables us to explore the ways that a new posthuman realism shapes human bodies, desires, and politics in the digital age.
The digital human is constructed with a number of templates based on anthropometry database that represent various levels of body size and shape for the end-user.
Output data of the models are either motion trajectories or joint angles of critical body segments that can be further incorporated into human modelling software tools to drive digital human models during product ergonomic evaluation.
