1. A system for predicting the results of a therapeutic intervention for an eye of a patient, comprising: an imaging system configured to provide image data representing at least a portion of the eye of the patient; an input device configured to permit a user to design a proposed therapeutic intervention for the eye of the patient; a finite element modeling component configured to generate a finite element model representing the condition of the eye of the patient after the proposed therapeutic intervention according to the image data, the proposed therapeutic intervention, and at least one biomechanical property of tissue comprising the eye, the generated model having no a priori restraints on the motion of a corneal limbus of the eye; and a display configured to display the generated model to the user.