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Show ABSTRACT A framework for the representation, modeling, visualization and static analysis of natural systems has been developed. This framework provides the following aspects of a system: • geometry, • function, • simulation, and • graphics visualization. This approach shows how it is possible to explore higher level functions of such natural systems in their normal state, as well as in pathological conditions. The constructed system highlights two applications: 1. spine data visualization, and 2. finger modeling. Two subsystems were constructed: the Backbone Visualization System (BVS) and the Mechanical Finger Modeling System (MFMS). The BVS permits the analysis and study of human spine data and the MFMS allows for static analysis for a mechanical finger model, and serves as a prototype for future systems which will model the human finger. Evidence garnered from research and this prototype supports the position that, if the mechanical finger is similar to the human finger, then there is no static position |
