Manafzadeh Armita R, Gatesy Stephen M
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA02912.
Integr Comp Biol. 2022 Mar 15. doi: 10.1093/icb/icac008.
Paleobiological reconstructions of joint mobility are an essential component of functional analyses of extinct animals. Over the past half-decade, the methods underlying mobility studies have advanced rapidly in three main areas: increasing complexity of virtual joint manipulation, formalizing pose viability criteria, and constructing more rigorous quantitative frameworks. Here we contextualize and review the recent history of this field, and call attention to remaining challenges and potential future directions. Additionally, we make available and describe a set of user-friendly scripts for the animation software Autodesk Maya. In doing so, we aim to make many of the latest approaches for virtual mobility reconstruction more easily accessible to other researchers, encouraging their broader adoption and collaborative improvement.
关节活动能力的古生物学重建是已灭绝动物功能分析的重要组成部分。在过去的五年里，活动能力研究的基础方法在三个主要领域取得了迅速进展：虚拟关节操作的复杂性增加、姿势可行性标准的形式化以及构建更严格的定量框架。在此，我们将该领域的近期历史置于背景中并进行回顾，同时提请注意尚存的挑战和潜在的未来发展方向。此外，我们提供并描述了一套适用于动画软件Autodesk Maya的用户友好型脚本。我们这样做的目的是让其他研究人员更容易接触到许多最新的虚拟活动能力重建方法，鼓励更广泛地采用这些方法并进行合作改进。
