RF Propogation Body

Halley Coplin, RPI; Sandy Ressler, John Hagedorn, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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An animated body from an ongoing study of how radio frequency (RF) propgates through the human body. The colors in this demonstration are arbitrary and not related to RF signals (that is for future work). The body was animated by hand using Blender. The animation itself is accomplished via a brute force method of loading the geometry for each frame of the animation and using the "switch" node, in X3D to select which frame to display. The controls on the left side of the screen are implemented using jQuery widgets. You can select a contiguous set of frame from among the maximum of 50 frame, to animate. You may also play the animation backwards, single stepping and the usual aniamtion type controls.

Usage tips:

• If body doesn't show up (after about 10 seconds) go to the showAll button in the Runtime accordion and click showAll.
• To animate move the slider range so that there are some frames active.