The AnyBody Documentation

The development of detailed and reliable models of the human body is an enormous task. The human body contains hundreds of anatomical muscles, many of which must be divided into several mechanical units. Each muscle in the body is subsequently described by many parameters describing strength, force-velocity and force-length relationships, parallel and serial elasticity, pennation angle, fiber length, origin and insertion, etc. The other elements of a body model, i.e., joints, bones, and connective tissues, must also be described. This means that a full body model will literally contain thousands of parameters.

We have to help each other!

AnyBody Technology will endorse an independent community of users developing, verifying, and exchanging AnyScript models for the benefit of all. To facilitate the process, the AnyBody research project, http://www.anybody.aau.dk, will initially coordinate the task of model development. This means that we shall

• propose a particular structure of the models that will facilitate the joining of models provided by different users
• collect models submitted by users and perform initial evaluations and conformity tests
• provide the digested models to other users free of charge and free of restrictions on the use of the models
• help establishing contact between users with similar interests, so that they may coordinate their efforts

In the long term, we would be entirely happy to leave these tasks in the hands of some independent scientific organization such as the bionet initiative or the ISB. The bionet initiative is currently trying to coordinate a very visionary effort to create a large repository of biomechanical data, and the AnyBody project wholeheartedly endorses this undertaking.

So, let's get started...

To get started using models from the repository and hopefully contributing models for the benefit of others, these are the steps we recommend you take:

1. If you have not already done so, complete the AnyScript tutorial
2. Read the general instructions on the development and use of AnyScript models
3. Download models from the Model repository and get a head start in your modeling
4. Contribute a model for the benefit of others.