The Morphology of the Rat Vibrissal Array: A Model for Quantifying Spatiotemporal Patterns of Whisker-Object Contact
Figure 14
Simulation of whisker-object collisions.
Circles are centered on the whisker base-point and constrain the movement of points on each whisker within a given rotation plane. Four locations along the whisker are indicated as black dots. The object (a cylinder) is indicated as a heavy black line. Only one whisker is shown and its length has been exaggerated for visual clarity.