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Assessment Study
Report: CDF-20(A)
February 2004
page 119 of 422
advantage of Poser is that it comes with predefined human characters with a high level of detail.
The manipulation of their limbs and body is also very straightforward. Also it provides a simple
library of clothes and hair.
A scene from the simulation produced, with a cutaway showing six astronauts is shown Figure
2-61:
Figure 2-61: Transfer Vehicle cutaway
Figure 2-62 shows a close up of an astronaut. This is useful for collision detection and to
evaluate distances:
2.11.2 Simulation tool selection
Figure 2-62: Astronaut posing view
Poser 5, the selected tool, provides some functionality for human factor studies but it is limited
in animation.
Problems identified are: