seachnasaigh posted at 12:18PM Sat, 04 November 2017 - #4317182

I would say that a modeler is intended for, specialized in, optimized for creating/modifying geometry. Geometry creation and manipulation is a modeler's raison d'etre.

Poser, at best, can only generate mesh as an obscure tangential function, and awkwardly at that. I would consider Poser a 3D rendering studio, not a modeler.

^--- This.

Poser doesn't create geometry. At least, not natively. It "can" using python scripts, but that's just because python can do that and it supports those functions. Poser can be used to manipulate and render geometry as well as create certain poser-specific materials and, of course, as a rigging tool. In short, it's a renderer and animation solution with some basic geometry manipulation.

Due to possible confusion, I wouldn't try to redefine 3D modeling. Wikipedia's take is "good enough", no real need to redefine things. If the user is interested in a package, they'll go look at it for themselves.