While the content of the lectures, animations, "movies" and the basic 3-D self-guided manipulation of a lower limb and hoof are unchanged, the engine has been updated and the packaging improved. The accompanying study guide is now a pdf file on the installation disk, and you receive terrific full color images to use as wallpaper or to print out and share.
Best of all, the price remains the same for 2010. Each set of disks allows two installations and costs $89 plus $6 postage in the USA, with additional postage required to ship elsewhere.
About the program: The Glass Horse: Elements of the Distal Limb is an educational software program designed to provide a thorough understanding of the structures of the lower front leg and foot of the horse. Animated art illustrates a spoken lecture dedicated to each section of anatomy--bones, tendons, ligaments, blood supply, nerves, hoof structures--and every individual structure is examined in three dimensions and its attachments and orientations are explained.
A separate module within the cd-rom is a self-guided 3-d lower limb which the user can manipulate in whatever mode of anatomical "dressing" he or she prefers, by adding or subtracting nerves, blood supply, tendons, etc. to reveal structures or explain their relationships and attachments. The user, via the mouse, can travel up and down the limb, move left and right and rotate it in 3-d, including "rotating" the foot so that the bottom of the hoof and coffin bone are revealed. That in turn can be rotated; for instance, the bottom of the foot in the illustration above could have any orientation the viewer desires and the angle of flexion could have been stopped at any point.
The program is said to have endless possibilities and hidden features that users discover sometimes by accident. All lectures are "spoken" in veterinary terminology but are simultaneously illustrated by arrows or animated action on the screen. An included study guide will help with any stumbling blocks.
The Glass Horse details the anatomy of a normal, adult horse. Anatomy refers to the arrangement and location of structures and not the interpretation of their function.
We also recommend as a companion Dr Jean-Marie Denoix's Equine Distal Limb: An Atlas of Clinical Anatomy and Comparative Imaging, also sold by Hoofcare Publishing ($275 + $15 post in USA; foreign orders by special arrangement only).
GLASS HORSE ORDERING INFORMATION
To order: Use this dropdown menu to select shipping to the USA, Canada or another country and click "buy now"; your secure, online order will be sent directly to Hoofcare Publishing. The cost is $89 plus postage.
Email orders to glasshorse@hoofcare.com.
Fax orders to USA 978 283 8775.
Phone orders to USA 978 281 3222.
Mail orders to Hoofcare Publishing, 19 Harbor Loop, Gloucester MA 01930 USA; please send checks or money orders in US funds only, drawn on US banks. We cannot accept currency or checks drawn on banks that are not on US soil.
All orders are shipped via the US Postal Service. Most orders travel quite quickly through the US Mail but they do not guarantee when a package will be delivered. We do track all packages within the USA. It is not possible to track shipments by mail outside the USA.
Fax orders to USA 978 283 8775.
Phone orders to USA 978 281 3222.
Mail orders to Hoofcare Publishing, 19 Harbor Loop, Gloucester MA 01930 USA; please send checks or money orders in US funds only, drawn on US banks. We cannot accept currency or checks drawn on banks that are not on US soil.
All orders are shipped via the US Postal Service. Most orders travel quite quickly through the US Mail but they do not guarantee when a package will be delivered. We do track all packages within the USA. It is not possible to track shipments by mail outside the USA.
Orders are sometimes backlogged and are shipped in the order in which they are received. Every effort is made to accommodate special requests.
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1 comment:
If only it wasn't so expensive!!!
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