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Physiology/Kinesiology

Tracey Kobayashi

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    Physiology/Kinesiology

Study of the human body and its major systems. Includes how the body grows, specializes, moves and functions as a complex system. Covers structure and function of major systems and motion concepts.

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I don't teach this course anymore, but the pages are still on the server. Feel free to peruse them!


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Biomechanics and Animation
For those of you into animation, the work you do has been made easier because of work completed by researchers in the field of Biomechanics. The first response I get when I tell people I have a degree in Biomechanics is a blank stare. The second is usually some excuse to get away from me, but sometimes it's What's Biomechanics? Biomechanics is the study of animal motion, and animation as you know it originated in the discipline of Kinematic Analysis (describing motion from a mechanical standpoint). The original animations came from a desire to understand, and perhaps improve, movement patterns, and were done by filming people doing various tasks and digitizing their segmental endpoints frame-by-frame using the Lafayette film digitizer (a sonic digitizing board and program set up to spit back numbers representing positions, velocities and accelerations). I used one of these for a class project, and when you're shooting 300 frames per second, the process is quite tedious. Needless to say, many early studies involved short time frames One of the indirect benefits of kinematic analysis came not in enhancing performance, but in depicting movement, hence the algorithms you use in your animation programs. Times have changed since the Lafayette digitizer, and the tools have improved greatly. Below are links to some relatively recent work in Biomechanics with respect to animation.

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Physiology

Physiology by Costanzo and Schmitt. Publisher WB Saunders. ISBN 0721695493. Available in the bookstore for $36.95. Amazon has used copies (previous editions) from $23.