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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Modelling human anatomy
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scot@catzen.gun.de (Scot W. Stevenson) writes:
>Hello Johannes,
>> Are there any known (generic) models of human anatomy - or parts of it -, 
>> which describe more than just generalisation and aggregation hierarchies, 
>> but regard as well things like topological and geometric relations between 
>> anatomic parts and their (3D-)shape?

>I'm not quite sure exactly what you are looking for, but you might want

    I'm not sure either, but Badler's group at the University of
Pennsylvania has done extensive work on modelling the human body
for animation purposes.  They actually model all the spinal column
joints, and have a non-trivial model of the shoulder.

				John Nagle
