Biomechanical Modeling of the Tongue
Konstantinos Sideris　　　　Alexander Rickett
University of California, Los Angeles

In this project, we present an interactive, biomechanical model of the human tongue. The actuator-muscles are implemented as simple damped springs with dynamic rest lengths, (set by the user via sliders) while the tissue of the tongue itself is implemented with generic soft bodies from Bullet, an open physics library.

Project Paper
     TongueWriteup.pdf


Code
     AL_Tongue.zip


Video Demonstration

In the video, the user experiments with setting the rest lengths of the various muscles in the model.