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You guys remember back in April, when Strawberry Singh did that whole “What’s Your Digits?” thing, and there was the Flickr group, and then I went completely bugfuck with the statistics, and I made those “average” avatars? Well, I did.

And today, sachi Vixen pointed out to me that those “average” avatars might be useful for mesh designers, since right now, mesh can’t conform to body proportions like breast size or butt size. Knowing how most avatars have actually set their body fat and whatnot might come in handy. Oh yeah, I said, with a Homer-Simpson d’oh face.

Caveat: yes, I know that these shapes are not an average of all the users of Second Life. I know that they do not encompass child AVs, furry AVs, robot AVs, non-human AVs, crazy-ass noob AVs with platform-butt and invisible-horse hips, and all the awesome variety of AVs that makes Second Life so fun. They are an average of the participants in the Flickr group. IT’S STILL USEFUL.

So I have put my “average” shapes out. For free. Full perm. They are at RezIpsa Loc (which is currently moving, but I swear they’ll be back out shortly), because Rezzie is awesome and gave me a spot to put them out. Go get ‘em (when RezIpsa Loc is back up, or IM me, Vaki Zenovka, and I’ll send them to you). I hope somebody finds them helpful.