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easy to create a model of a gymnastic exercise on the floor this way.
• Constructing a model from single predefined body parts in the repository. This allows for detailed
control of which body parts are included in the model and may be useful for, for instance, detailed
investigations of the internal forces in a single limb.
• Constructing a body model and its environment bottom-up. This is recommended for users
interested in development models that are not covered by the current model repository. This could
either be detailed models of missing body parts or perhaps single joints, or it could be models of
various animals. The basic steps of such bottom-up model construction are described in the tutorial
Getting Started with AnyScript
, which is a good place to start for new users, even if you do not plan
to build models bottom-up.
These various levels of model building complexity are covered in The Building Block Tutorial
.
As you can see above, the more detailed approaches are covered by other tutorials. To get you up and
running quickly, we shall take the top-down approach in this tutorial and use the model library to accomplish
the following:
1. Load the predefined standing model, place it in a given posture, and apply an external force to it.
2. Modify the predefined standing model to carry a hand bag.
3. Create a new model and import a predefined collection of body parts from the library to obtain a
model of a simple gymnastics exercise.
This entire tutorial relies heavily on the body model repository. It is a library of predefined models and body
parts developed by scientists as a research undertaking. The models are placed in the public domain and are
therefore totally open to scrutiny and are consequently improved and changed constantly. The effort is
coordinated by the AnyBody Research Project at Aalborg University in Denmark. If you are a new user and
unfamiliar with the structure of the repository, then it is strongly recommended that you pop over to the
scientific homepage for a short interlude to familiarize yourself with the structure an idea behind it. When
you feel familiar with the ideas, come back here and continue the tutorial. The link to the repository on the
scientific homepage is here: www.anybody.aau.dk/Repository/
.
Before you continue you must download the entire repository and save it on your hard disk. A selection of
models from the respository are included in the demo collection which is installed with AnyBody. These
demo models should be sufficient for your work with this and other tutorials, but because the repository
keeps geting updated it may be a good idea to download and unpack the newest version from
www.anybody.aau.dk/Repository/
before you start any serious modeling work.
The demo models, including the Standing Model to be used in this tutorial, are available from the Demo tab
of the AnyBody Assistant dialog box.