Fast volume-preserving muscle primitive

Just remembered about this prototype I made one year ago.
It is a simple fusiform muscle primitive that properly computes volume preservation.
The muscle is generated starting from a curve and can be easily shaped through a curve attribute.

The plugin generates the inner tetrahedrons to compute and preserve the volume through deformation.

The benefits of this approach are ease of use and high performance. This makes it perfect for real-time solutions. As it can output the generated tetrahedralized volume, the result could be plugged into more sophisticated FEM solutions.

This work has nothing to do with the any of the systems in use or under development at MPC. It is pure weekend fun :)

volume-preserving muscle primitive from Marco Romeo on Vimeo.

Best,

Marco.