New project

Having completed my first DIL goal in PHP, I've decided to tackle the apparently more visually rewarding job of exporting a simple polygon model from 3dsMax with Collada or some other conversion plugin which will be read by Papervision 2.0. Import it into a papervision class file, the skeleton for which can be seen <here>, with imported plane with transparent PNG texture.
Then export this with a pre-loader if neccessary for access from BlackBoard.
After I've done that I'll attempt to make the model interactive, so you can click on parts and change there orientation, or pull up information pertaining to them.
Ultimately, if funding becomes available, the scanning of anatomical models kept for the purposes of hands on teaching would enable students to explore objects in cyberspace. The 3d laser scanner here is designed just for that purpose.
The raw mesh will have to be optimized and mapped, even if just baked with a light map for shading, but with the potential for interactive maps - flash movies/animations as textures.
here's a link to some examples(on the right)