Two linked assessments:-
A poster showing the results of the creatures modelled plus accompanying report of 1,500 words (max) describing and critically appraising three computer generated figures (Learning outcomes 2 and 3). (weighted at 50%)
A 1 hour open book class test with multiple choice section and questions testing the substance of the report (Learning outcome 1).
Formative multiple choice test available in Week 9. (weighted at 50%)

This module compares and contrasts the structure and physiology of the living world, the underlying engineering principles, and how these are important in the appearance of animatronics. This will include:

- Abstraction versus realism
- Styles of computer generated animals and plants
- Vertebrate and invertebrate general features
- Vertebrate groups, similarities and differences
- Mammalian features, particularly human
- Skeletal structure and posture
- Levers and muscle pairs
- Joint types and dexterity
- Invertebrate groups
- Hydraulic skeletons
- Plant group features
- Evolution and zoogeography

Lectures 24 hours
Tutorials 12 hours
(1:n), (1:30)2

Access to the web and library, plus general computing facilities.

None

Bowes, B.G., 1999, A Colour Atlas of Plant Structure, Manson Publishing Ltd., ISBN 1874545162
Dixon, D., 1982, After Man, A Zoology of the Future, Granada Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0246115777
Gray, H. Anatomy of the Human Body, 2000, 20th Edition, available on line Bartleby.com, 1976, Philadelphia: Lea Febiger ISBN 0812103777
Schmidt-Nielsen, K., 1972, How Animals Work, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521084172 & 0521096928
Withers, P.C., 1992, Comparative Animal Physiology, Fort Worth: Saunders College Pub. ISBN 0030128471