Avatars Used For Australian Online Sex Appeal Study

An anonymous reader writes "Australian scientists are seeking volunteers online to help them better understand sexual attraction. At a specially created website — www.bodylab.biz — users can go online and make their own ratings of computer-generated avatar images of men and women of greatly varying shapes, sizes, and proportions. The bodyLab team will analyse and compile the results and each month will cull about half of the images — those that are least popular — and virtually 'breed' new body shapes from parent avatars with features rated as most attractive by people taking part in the experiment. Over time, the scientists hope thousands of users will help them work through six or more generations of avatars to narrow down the special combinations of features that make up the 'ideal' body — although they're keeping an open mind about whether several combinations will emerge."

Desperately seeking Rosanne Barr Aliens

[linzeal]

I think what is happening is that the grey aliens are getting older, fatter and more lonely since being captured at Area 51 and exposed to a high fat and sedentary American superspy lifestyle. With this study they hope to find the ip addresses of those attracted to grey blobs and abduct you later tonight for a little probing.

Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam

[LoverOfJoy]

Okay ladies, whose more attractive? Fudd or Sam? What would their kids look like? A cartoon Hot or Not. Is this for some masters student's thesis?

Dang...

[flyingfsck]

Where did they get those pics of me???

Re:All the feet were messed up.

[Anonymous Coward]

On some models, also width.

Re:Dang...

[What the Frag]

Full-body scanners from the airport?

Re:That's not how men work

[Anonymous Coward]

Since when is there a no?

Re:All the feet were messed up.

[linzeal]

I thought it was to check if you could fuck the person you were looking at in the back of a VW bug.

Re:Dang...

[linzeal]

Are they all of TSA employees? The male genitalia looks to be of interest mostly to medical journals, freak shows and collectors of diminutive Japanese male penis Polaroids.

Women run OpenBSD

[linzeal]

Women are far more arcane than Linux, I would wager many of my ex-gfs ran OpenBSD because by default their ports were all closed.

Bah. You all got it wrong.

[Anachragnome]

Bah. You all got it wrong.

If you look closely, you can see a watermark-like image of a Volkswagen Beetle behind the models.

This made things much easier. I simply imagined trying some heavy-petting in the back seat with each model. That instantly ruled out the models with gigantism, the Ogres and left exactly one model with a snowballs chance in hell...and she still got a -1.

In all seriousness, the second time I tried it I got different results. I actually rated one of the models a +1 on the second time. Probably because she didn't look like she was on a diet of pure corn-syrup and might actually fit in the car.

Where are the /b/rothers?

[Anonymous Coward]

You all know what will happen.
Some Anonymous Coward will post this to 4chan.

And then the hambeast will be chosen as the most beautiful body type.

Re:RENDERED NIPS OR GTFO

[Anonymous Coward]

You can see a little slit though. I fapped.

that was fugly

[roman_mir]

God, only one time there was a 0 rating from me, everything else was -3, -2 and -1 and honestly, I did not like a single one of them, how do they come up with these models, did they take the LOTR Orcs or something?

Re:Well that was obnoxious

[pushf popf]

I like a woman with curves, but everybody they showed me looked like "Land of The Giants" or The Thing That Ate The Buffet. I didn't give anybody more than zero.

The last few looked big enough to pick up the Volkswagen and toss it like a Tonka toy.

the faces did it for me

[ciaran_o_riordan]

> I couldn't pick out any attractive ones because their faces were all pixelated!

And? I'm into that. I gave them all 3s.

Re:Well that was obnoxious

[tomhudson]

Vote for the ugliest, most unattractive, most disgusting. Lets see them analyze THAT!

It's easy. If it's too fat or too skinny, click on the +2. If it's decent, click on the -2. throw in some -3 and +1/-1 at random. If it looks like the prototypical slashdotter or Steve Balmer, click on +3.