colorcurvature opened this issue on Oct 24, 2012 · 11 posts
ockham posted Wed, 24 October 2012 at 2:56 PM
Just for fun, by wiggling my own body parts in 10-degree steps and using Poser's conventions of joints and parts:
Each finger would have about 450 poses. The combinations of these for one hand would be 450^5 or so, which is 1.8 * 10^13.
Each wrist has about 72 poses. Each forearm has about 80. Each shoulder (in Poser terminology) has about 600. Each collar has 24. Combinations of these for one arm: 8e7.
Multiplying that by the hand: 1.5e21 for one complete arm-structure.
Square that for two arms: 2e42.
Neck: 300. Chest: only 10. Abdomen: 30. Total head/torso combinations: 9e4.
Multiply by the arms total: 1.8e47.
One leg and foot (toes working as a unit, like most Poser figs): 1.4e4.
Square for both legs: 2e8.
Multiply by previous total: 3.5e55.
Or so.
Admittedly some of those would be unlikely for a real human because of tendons being pulled by other tendons, but all should be achievable by a digital figure.
For comparison, the number of observable stars is about 1e22, and the number of bacteria on earth is about 5e30.