Interactive modeling of the human musculature

Author

Aubel, Amaury ; Thalmann, Daniel

Author_Institution

Comput. Graphics Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Switzerland

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

255

Abstract

In this paper, we extend our previous work (Proc. Computer Animation and Simulation, pp. 125-135, Aug. 2000) and propose a muscle model that is suitable for computer graphics based on physiological and anatomical considerations. Muscle motion and deformation is automatically derived from one or several action lines, each action line being deformed by a 1D mass-spring system. The resulting model is fast, can accommodate most superficial human muscles, and could easily be integrated into current modeling packages. Example animations can be found at <http://ligwww.epfl.ch/~aubel/MuscleBuilder/>

Keywords

biology computing; biomechanics; computer animation; deformation; digital simulation; interactive systems; muscle; physiological models; 1D mass-spring system; action lines; anatomical considerations; animation; computer graphics; human musculature; interactive modeling; modeling packages; muscle deformation; muscle model; muscle motion; physiological considerations; Biological system modeling; Bones; Computer graphics; Deformable models; Ellipsoids; Humans; Muscles; Shape; Skin; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Animation, 2001. The Fourteenth Conference on Computer Animation. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Seoul

ISSN

1087-4844

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7237-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CA.2001.982390

Filename

982390