[Novalug] has anyone on this list done biomechanical motion analysis?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Thirty years ago we called that COGO -- coordinate geometry.  ;)



----- Original Message ----
From: Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net>
To: novalug mailing list <NOVALUG at calypso2.tux.org>
Sent: Monday, October 5, 2009 3:22:35 PM
Subject: [Novalug] has anyone on this list done biomechanical motion analysis?


So far I am not finding any linux/unix aps for this. (You have to put 
biomechanical in the search because software tracking movements of stocks 
are also calle "motion analyis".

I have found one rather full featured commercial windows program called 
ProAnalyst. It is a bit pricey but keeping in mind that the reason I did 
not finish my PhD was that I tried to write a motion analysis program 
for the Amiga (in Amiga Basic) and I had a trigonometry crises which kept 
me from finishing the program.

However now that I am leaning to pull my research footage off my video 
tapes I am inspired to try and finish the project.

The basic thing I need to be able to do is to mark points on a still 
picture and measure lengths and angles determined by the points and save 
the measurements to a datafile without having to hand enter the x,y 
co-ordinates.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                        Bonnie Dalzell, MA
mail:5100 Hydes Rd PO Box 60, Hydes,MD,USA 21082-0060|EMAIL:bdalzell at qis.net
Freelance anatomist, vertebrate paleontologist, writer, illustrator, dog
breeder, computer nerd & iconoclast... Borzoi info at www.borzois.com.
HOME www.batw.net    ART bdalzellart.batw.net  BUSINESS www.boardingatwedge.com

_______________________________________________
Novalug mailing list
Novalug at calypso.tux.org
http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/novalug