FORMAT OF BONE FILES In the musculoskeletal modeling software, a body segment consists of one or more bones. The bones that make up each body segment are specified as shown in the following example. beginsegment FEMUR name right_femur files: 1 filenames: r_femur.dat endsegment The files listed in the definitions of the body segments (e.g. r_femur.dat) define the polygon meshes that describe the bone surfaces. These files list the 3D coordinates of the polygon vertices (in a vertex list) and define how the vertices are connected to form polygons (in a polygon list). The reference frame that is associated with each body segment serves as the coordinate system for the polygon vertices. The first number on each line of the polygon list specifies the number of vertices in the polygon; the rest of the numbers on the line are the vertices in that polygon. For example, the first polygon in the polygon list has three vertices, which are the first three vertices in the vertex list. The format of the bone files is shown below. 260 290 (number of vertices, number of polygons) VERTEX LIST CONTAINS VERTICES (X,Y,Z) AND VERTEX NORMALS (X,Y,Z) (Xvert Yvert Zvert ) (Xnorm Ynorm Znorm) -0.014 -0.013 -0.016 -0.418 -0.416 -0.806 -0.000 0.009 -0.020 0.087 0.092 -0.991 -0.013 0.003 -0.020 -0.505 0.195 -0.840 .. .. POLYGON LIST 3 1 2 3 3 2 3 4 4 3 4 7 8 4 4 5 13 12 4 5 6 14 13 .. ..