Interactive virtual skeleton?

September 21, 2005 6:42 PM

Weird question of the day: is there a preferably free utility (for Mac or PC) or website that allows you to interact with a realistic virtual skeleton and allow you to position it in various poses?
posted by robbie01 to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Daz just came out with their free Poser-like program, Daz Studio, which you might be interested in. I've never used it, but there seems to be a fairly large selection of characters that you can import and manipulate to your heart's content, including various anatomical figures.

They're not free though. But I'll bet that you can find some that are.
posted by crumbly at 8:20 PM on September 21, 2005

This isn't free either but it does what you want.
posted by tellurian at 8:36 PM on September 21, 2005

My employer's Human Modeling and Simulation department wrote Jack.
posted by Rothko at 8:59 PM on September 21, 2005

Best answer: Poser has a trial version. Don't know about limitations of the free demo, but in the full version there are realistic male and female skeletons, it's very easy to set poses, plus there are tons of already done poses in the library.

Just to demonstrate, I did this now with few clicks.
posted by b. at 8:07 AM on September 22, 2005

It's not free, but there's always Poser.
posted by Wild_Eep at 8:17 AM on September 22, 2005