ArtiSynth Documentation

• Overview: An overview paper describing ArtiSynth's design, features, and physical simulation methods.

Online documentation

Note that ArtiSynth online documentation is kept (roughly) up-to-date for the current development version. For prepackaged releases, the documentation stored within the doc/html directories of the release itself should be more reliable.

• Manuals and Guides: Manuals and guides describing installation, model creation, user interface, programming reference and other items, made available through Eclipse InfoCenter. These can also be accessed directly through the website at https://www.artisynth.org/doc/info.
• Java API: API documentation for ArtiSynth's Java classes.

Specific Manuals and Guides

Document titles link to PDF files. Each document is also available on InfoCenter (info) or as a standalone HTML file.

• Installation Instructions: How to install ArtiSynth.
• Learning Java: Learn just enough Java from the Oracle tutorials to be able to develop ArtiSynth models.
• Modeling Guide: Describes how to create ArtiSynth models in Java (info|pdf|html).
• User Interface Guide: Describes the graphical user interface and model editing features (info|pdf|html).
• OpenSim Importer: A brief first draft on how to import OpenSim models into ArtiSynth (courtesy of Eva Herbst, ETH, Zurich).
• MATLAB Interface: Describes how ArtiSynth can be interfaced to MATLAB, and how it can be used for scripting applications (info|pdf|html).
• Writing Documentation: Information for people writing ArtiSynth documentation (info|pdf|html).
• Coding Standard: Information for people developing ArtiSynth (info|pdf|html).

In progress:

• Maspack Reference Manual: Programming documentation for the maspack packages (info|pdf|html).
• ArtiSynth Reference Manual: Programming documentation for ArtiSynth (info|pdf|html).

Tutorials

Tutorial information is given on the Tutorial page

!!!Papers and Reports

*Model Editing: Tracy Wilkinson (Aug. 31, 2007). Describes a preliminary version of the graphical model editing interface.

*Probe Editing: Johnty Wang (Apr. 30, 2007). Describes the graphical interface for adding and editing probes.

*Navigation Panel: Chad Decker (Apr. 27, 2006). Describes a preliminary version of the graphical navigation panel.