Precedents

Ive Sorted out what my final precedent images are going to be.

I chose this an image of this sculpture of a cheetah because of how it conveyed a sense of movement, how the beams and pistons mimic muscles.

 This is a 3D printed prosthetic leg made by bespoke innovations who specialize in personal prosthetic limbs. They help people who have lost their limbs return some of their individuality rather than give them a stock, mass produced prosthetic.

This is probably my favorite of the my precedents, its a piece of artwork from a video game called Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which focused on themes of transhumanism and altering the human body. This is called a "cyber arm prosthesis" and actually revolves around very similar themes as the limbs from Bespoke Innovations. When designing the game artists were

I found this image of the internal muscles in the human arm just to couple with the above image, to show the similarities in how the two are shaped, and also how the muscles inspired the mechanical pieces. It’s also just there to help me with the flow of the form im creating, some of the muscles in the elbow look like ridges and some of the tendons like pins.

This arm is one of the first ever robotic limbs with functioning “muscles”, created by a German company called Festo. Its range of movements are incredibly wide and the movements themselves are eerily human.

This is a sculpture by an artist named Christopher Conte and I desided to use it because of how well it alludes to the form of a spine and neck with metal cogs, levers and pegs.