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Ok, let me make sure I've got the slice/skin thing together. For example, in the mouse image (from the catalog), if you skinned the sliced mouse, you could then take those discs that make up his body and move them left to right and the "skin" would stretch with it? Could a routine like that be used to simulate, for a pitifully non-creative example, an alien trying to come out of the mouse's stomach?