Avatars Used For Australian Online Sex Appeal Study 175
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 (Score:5, Funny)
Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam (Score:3, Funny)
Dang... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:All the feet were messed up. (Score:3, Funny)
On some models, also width.
Re:Dang... (Score:5, Funny)
Full-body scanners from the airport?
Re:That's not how men work (Score:3, Funny)
Since when is there a no?
Re:All the feet were messed up. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dang... (Score:2, Funny)
Women run OpenBSD (Score:4, Funny)
Bah. You all got it wrong. (Score:4, Funny)
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? (Score:2, Funny)
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 (Score:1, Funny)
that was fugly (Score:3, Funny)
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 (Score:4, Funny)
The last few looked big enough to pick up the Volkswagen and toss it like a Tonka toy.
the faces did it for me (Score:3, Funny)
> 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 (Score:3, Funny)
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.