- Poses
- Data
- Research
The pose catalog names 219 positions. Until this month only 104 of them were mapped into the folksonomy tags that open image models know; the other 115 had no bridge from their name to a tag.
The crosswalk now covers all 219. Every mapping says what it discards, because most tags are broader than the position they stand for: the missionary tag alone now stands for 27 catalog positions, and the statement for each says which feature the tag cannot express.
The open pose dataset was refreshed on October 20 with the full set: 219 positions, 493 keypoint templates, 339 crosswalk rows, 88 provenance links and the 87 attested artworks.
Under the hood
- Each new mapping was written against the tag's live definition and checked by a second pass that compared the statement to the position's own geometry; statements that claimed no tag where a sibling position had one were rewritten.
- The knowledge-base side of the crosswalk anchors a position to its Wikidata item only where the item describes the same arrangement; a candidate whose article described a different arrangement was left unanchored rather than guessed.
- The historical names layer grew with the positions: the attested names from the manuals and the art traditions now join 85 positions to their sources.
- The crosswalk, the action layer and the context axes are regenerated from the same source files as the site, so the dataset and the pages cannot drift apart.
- positions mapped
- 219
- crosswalk rows
- 339
- positions with no precise external identifier anywhere
- 165
See it on the site
Sources and open data
Related build notes
- Aug 10, 2026Pose catalog v2.0 adds motion, context and a 194-row crosswalkFor 61 of 104 positions, no other machine-readable vocabulary holds a precise identifier. Pose catalog v2.0 is that record, now with motion and context.
- Jul 19, 2026Every pose gets a figure, drawn straight from its keypointsAll 104 poses render as articulated figures computed from their keypoint data, and the pose pipeline is open source with a methodology paper and a DOI.
- Jul 17, 2026From Venus figurines to the lens era: a timeline of erotic artA timeline of erotic art from the Venus figurines to the lens era, and an index of 87 museum-attested works across 13 traditions.