Five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci attempted to memorialize Vitruvius' description of man's ideal human body. To do this, he manually measured proportions and combined them, 1,2 creating one of the most famous drawings of the human body in the world-Vitruvian Man. [3][4][5] Today, precise anthropometric body lengths can be obtained rapidly on large numbers of individuals. We repeated his approach using contemporary body scanning measurements to determine what Vitruvius' proportions would be in this modern data set and how they would appear if drawn in the style of Vitruvian Man. We also extended the process to women.
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