A modern visualizer for creating beautiful images and movies. Researchers, teachers, and clinicians need to make clear and compelling visuals to share their work with others. Researchers also need fast and flexible visualizations to help them build and troubleshoot models and simulations. The new visualizer in OpenSim 4.0 allows users to:
Easily add and adjust lighting and shadowsAdd visual geometry to the scene (e.g., for your lab) without editing the OpenSim model file
Automatically visualize analytical geometry in your model, like spheres and planes, without adding meshes to your model file.
Create movies automatically on 64-bit machines on both Mac and Windows
We provide default lighting that will work well for most users and have updated the look of OpenSim muscles to help you create high impact visuals out of the box.
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Improved support for motion capture data in the C3D file format. We know that importing your experimental data to use in OpenSim can be challenging and time-consuming. In OpenSim version 4.0, by incorporating the BTK package (created by Arnaud Barre), we now support reading marker and force data from C3D files. In general, you will still need to create Matlab or other scripts to read in your data, but new functionality makes this process much easier. We also provide Matlab utilities to (i) read Data into OpenSim-compatible data tables, (ii) output data as Matlab Structures, (iii) rotate marker and force plate data, and (iv) write marker and force plate data to OpenSim file format (.trc and .mot, respectively). See our documentation on C3D Reading(.c3d) Files for more information.
Custom modeling and simulation studies via Matlab, Python, and C++. We have overhauled OpenSim’s API or Application Programming Interface to make it easier for researchers to create their own custom workflows in either Matlab, Python, or C++.
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Frames & Points to define, track, and report reference frames and points of interest. A Frame is an OpenSim representation of a reference frame and a Point is an OpenSim representation of any location in space. Frames and Points provide a convenient way to locate physical structures, such as joints and muscle attachments, and perform spatial calculations. For example, if your system includes contact, you might define a Frame that is aligned with the normal direction of a contact surface and whose origin is at the center-of-pressure. You can then easily report the contact forces normal to the contact surface and the location of the center-of-pressure, without repeatedly performing the transformations in your main or analysis code. Read More in our API Guide.
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