Fast and Accurate Modeling of Complex Muscle Paths for Musculoskeletal Simulations
Channel: SimbiosMovies
Date: 05/07/2012

Biomechanical simulations are being used to better understand human and animal movement and improve treatments for movement disorders.  Muscles play an important role in movement, and how they are modeled in a simulation can affect both simulation accuracy and performance.  This video describes the muscle path representation and presents the results of a method to automatically generate these muscles paths in a more flexible, more accurate, and faster manner than previous methods.  
 
You can read about the algorithm details in "A General Approach to Muscle Wrapping over Multiple Surfaces," American Society for Biomechanics, August 2012.