Anatomically accurate fruit fly body model (VIDEO)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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This video shows the fly model’s body structure and degrees of freedom. The fly model consists of 67 body parts connected by 66 joints, amounting to 102 degrees of freedom. The video shows a sequence of all the degrees of freedom kinematically moved in a sine-wave fashion.

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Vaxenburg et al.

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