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The result of my project is the functional model. I reached some difficulties with aesthetic appeal. The knuckles protrude from the side of the hand extraneously, so I added cylinders running from them to the palm to make the hand appear realistic. The fingers appeared strange when the radius of the joints were larger than the radius of the cylinders of the digits, so I made the two equal to successful results. The fingers also needed to have similar proportions to a real hand. I set up a function to store length and raduius of each digit in arrays. The middle finger is the biggest on the human hand, so the joint at the base of the middle finger is the largest and the longest on my model. I have sompleted the large scale angle changing function using the number keys, with '0' making a flat hand and '9' making a fist. The specific motion is still under construction. Also, the thumb has been added, but need to be improved for realistic appearance.



Michael Hull 2003-06-11