Early Cats, Ellipsoidally Based
Early Cats
In our initial model, all underlying components (bones, muscles,
and generlized components) were ellipsoids. Muscles stretched
between a single origin and a single insertion. They changed
shape in a volume-preserving manner when joints moved.
The skin was extracted in a similar but simplified manner to
that shown in the
the Monkey House.
That is, the volume around the animal was voxelized and filtered,
and an isosurface extraction method applied to produce
a polygon-mesh skin.
Images
Cats in Space Image (92 Kbytes)
Cat Components Image (132 Kbytes)
Pseudo Toad Image (159 Kbytes)
Three Flexible Cats (262 Kbytes)
Animations
Zuni Cat Animation
SGI format, 6.9 Mb
Quicktime, 6.9 Mb
Quicktime, 2.5 Mb
Cats in Space Image (92 Kbytes)
Cat Components Image (132 Kbytes)
Pseudo Toad Image (159 Kbytes)
Three Flexible Cats (262 Kbytes)