Dimetrodon Force Field Simulation (VIDEO)

Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

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The study involved digitizing the fossil skeletons of extinct synapsids, creating digital biomechanical models of the musculoskeletal system of the hindlimb, and using these models to compute the limb’s ability to apply force on the ground in different directions. The result is a three-dimensional ‘feasible force space’, which describes what the limb is capable of achieving during locomotion.

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Peter Bishop

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