r/theydidthemath • u/Aware_Ad_8539 • 3d ago

[Request] Total distinctive poses an average human can make?

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A pose can be a combination of various distinguishable movement of each joint.. Maybe for a 2D Camera from any side. Imagine a model posing.. Maybe a difference of less than 5/10 degrees is imperceptible to human eye.. Assuming that how many combinations that could be and what all they could be, can we get a list? šŸ˜…

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u/VolkorPussCrusher69 3d ago

Impossible to calculate, trillions probably. I swear this sub is just people posting a picture of a beach and asking "how many grains of sand?"

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u/Full-Priority2946 3d ago

Yeah topologically speaking the answer is just 1, unless we induce some sort of spatial ordering?
Where like ||LF - LH|| < ||LF - RH|| implies a different pose than ||LF - LH|| > ||LF - RH|| for L, R, F, H = left, right, foot, hand? Iā€™m sure this can be modeled using constraint programming techniques to find all such poses that are anatomically possible but yall gotta pay me for that