Predicting Centre-Dependent Spatial Density Functions of 3D Surface Anthropometry Data

A new, valuable but vast dataset will become available to the scientific and general public: the results of the CAESAR project (Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource). The concept of centre-dependent spatial density functions was introduced earlier to realise a major reduction in surface anthropometry scan data. Here the basic mathematics are described of centre-dependent vector shifts needed to arrive at these spatial density functions. Since as yet no real 3D scan data are available to us the concepts are tested with a Monte Carlo generation of ninetytwo models with a reasonable variation in eight anthropometric variables and discussed.