Calculate the Inertial Properties of a Flying Bird

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calc_inertia_conesolid	Moment of inertia tensor of a solid circular cone pyramid
calc_inertia_cylhollow	Moment of inertia tensor of a hollow cylinder
calc_inertia_cylsolid	Moment of inertia tensor of a solid cylinder
calc_inertia_ellcone	Moment of inertia tensor of a solid elliptical cone - end of purple notebook derivation verified in green
calc_inertia_ellcyl	Moment of inertia tensor of a solid elliptical cylinder Reference: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0274936.pdf
calc_inertia_ellipse	Moment of inertia tensor of solid ellipse CG or a half ellipse centered on the base
calc_inertia_platerect	Moment of inertia tensor of a flat rectangular plate - assumes thickness is approximately zero Reference: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0274936.pdf
calc_inertia_platetri	Moment of inertia tensor of a flat triangular plate
calc_inertia_pyrasolid	Moment of inertia tensor of a solid square pyramid Reference: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0274936.pdf All outputs are based on an origin at the centered point on the base
calc_rot	A 3x3 rotation matrix constructed by projecting the new axes onto the original system. Likely results in rotation about all axes.
calc_univec	Determine the unit vector of any input vector
clean_pts	The identified peripheral and joint 3D positions.
combine_inertialprop	Combine body and wing inertial components.
compute_feat_inertia	Compute the inertia of the individual feathers
dat_bird_curr	Bird specific morphology dataset
dat_bone_curr	Wing bone specific morphology dataset
dat_feat_curr	Flight feather specific morphology dataset
dat_id_curr	Identification variables for current configuration
dat_mat	Material properties.
density_optimizer	Optimize torso section densities
kronecker_delta	Kroneckerdelta function
massprop_birdwing	Calculate the center of gravity and moment of inertia for a halfspan wing.
massprop_bones	Bone mass properties
massprop_feathers	Feather mass properties
massprop_head	Head mass properties
massprop_muscles	Muscle mass properties
massprop_neck	Neck mass properties
massprop_pm	Point-mass mass properties
massprop_restbody	Calculate the center of gravity and moment of inertia for the head, neck, torso and tail.
massprop_skin	Calculates the mass properties of skin or tertiaries
massprop_tail	Head mass properties
massprop_torso	Torso and leg mass properties
orient_feather	Determine the feather orientation
parallelaxis	Parallel axis theory
plot_CGloc	Plot the center of gravity of each component
rotx	A 3x3 rotation matrix allowing rotation about the x-axis. Constructed using a cosine rotation matrix where the rotation angle in degrees is measured counterclockwise allowing positive rotation under the right hand rule.
store_data	Store data from the inertia calculations in long format
structural2VRP_feat	Transform feather specific inertial properties to current position