We found this fantastic video of a distal forelimb and wanted to share it with you. It gives great visibility of the limb and associated tendons and ligaments, and includes close-ups of:
Collateral ligament of the distal interphalangeal joint
Collateral ligament of the proximal interphalangeal joint
Collateral ligament of the fetlock
Intersesamoidean ligament and fibrocartilage
Collateral sesamoidean ligament
Cruciate sesamoidean ligaments
Short sesamoidean ligaments
Oblique sesamoidean ligaments
Straight sesamoidean ligaments
Axial palmar ligament of the proximal interphalangeal joint
Abaxial palmar ligament of the proximal interphalangeal joint
Navicular suspensory ligament
Interosseous ligament
Interosseous ligament (extensor branches)
Lateral digital extensor tendon
Common digital extensor tendon
Deep digital flexor tendon
Superficial digital flexor tendon
Guidance: this video has no sound.
Author Description
Jonathan Merritt: "A computer-generated movie that accompanied my PhD thesis. The movie shows many of the major tendons and ligaments in the equine distal forelimb. The models of the bones were created from real equine limb bones using in-house photogrammetric software that I wrote. The bones were imported into Blender, and the ligaments and tendons were modeled by hand. Finally, a custom RenderMan exporter script was used to export the models and camera animations to the Aqsis renderer."
For further information, please visit Jonathan's Youtube channel →, or why not connect with him on Twitter.
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3D Equine Distal Forelimb
