1.Project 1231

Joseph Paul Jernigan (January 31, 1954 – August 5, 1993) was a Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection at 12:31 a.m.
Joseph Paul Jernigan是得克萨斯一名谋杀犯，他在1993年8月5日12点31分被注射处死。

In 1981, Jernigan was sentenced to death for stabbing and shooting 75-year-old Edward Hale, who discovered him stealing a microwave oven.
他被处死的原因是在1981年杀害了一名75岁的老人Edward Hale，只因他被发现偷了一台微波炉。

His cadaver was sectioned and photographed for the Visible Human Project.
他的尸体被切片，并被分别拍照。这是一项名为可视人类计划的活动。

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Visible Human Project  可视人类计划

The Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications.
可视人类计划致力于对人类的身体建立详细的横截面数据，以方便解剖学的可视化研究。

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Jernigan's cadaver was encased and frozen in a gelatin and water mixture in order to stabilize the specimen for cutting. The specimen was then cut in the axial plane at 1 millimeter intervals.
尸体被包覆并冷冻于明胶与水的混合物中。定型之后以一毫米的间距制成切片标本。

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Each of the resulting 1,871 slices were photographed in both analog and digital.
所有的1871块切片都是用模拟与数字的方式拍下来。

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The animation was played fullscreen on a computer, which was moved around by an assistant while being photographed in a dark environment.
这些照片的拍摄方法：在黑暗中，使用电脑全屏依次播放整套1871 幅男性人体切片照片，然后由助理持电脑移动。

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The resulting images are long-exposure "light paintings" of the entire cadaver. Variations in the movement of the computer during each exposure created differences in the shape of the body throughout the series.
通过在黑暗环境下进行长时间曝光拍摄，他们得到了整个尸体的光影涂鸦。于是在静静的夜空下，移动的电脑制造出了鬼影缓缓飘过的灵异效果。