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avatar
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Snow Crash
(Edited)

The people are pieces of software called avatars.
Chpt 5-6

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
Hiro's avatar is now on the Street, too, and if the couples coming off the monorail look over in his direction, they can see him, just as he's seeing them.
Chpt 5-6

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
These are nice kids, and they don't want to talk to a solitary crossbreed with a slick custom avatar who's packing a couple of swords.
Chpt 5-6
Your avatar can look any way you want it to, up to the limitations of your equipment.
Chpt 5-6 *
If you're ugly, you can make your avatar beautiful.
Chpt 5-6
If you've just gotten out of bed, your avatar can still be wearing beautiful clothes and professionally applied makeup.
Chpt 5-6
Hiro's avatar just looks like Hiro, with the difference that no matter what Hiro is wearing in Reality, his avatar always wears a black leather kimono.
Chpt 5-6
Hiro's avatar just looks like Hiro, with the difference that no matter what Hiro is wearing in Reality, his avatar always wears a black leather kimono.
Chpt 5-6
Most hacker types don't go in for garish avatars, because they know that it takes a lot more sophistication to render a realistic human face than a talking penis.
Chpt 5-6

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
Most avatars nowadays are anatomically correct, and naked as a babe when they are first created, so in any case, you have to make yourself decent before you emerge onto the Street.
Chpt 5-6
The couples coming off the monorail can't afford to have custom avatars made and don't know how to write their own.
Chpt 5-6
They have to buy off-the-shelf avatars.
Chpt 5-6
Looks like she has bought the "Avatar Construction Set" and put together her own, customized model out of miscellaneous parts.
Chpt 5-6

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
There are no guards, no signs, nothing to bar people from going in, yet thousands of avatars mill around, peering inside, looking for a glimpse of something.
Chpt 5-6

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
The avatars milling around the entrance don't seem to care.
Chpt 5-6
If these avatars were real people in a real street, Hiro wouldn't be able to reach the entrance.
Chpt 5-6
On the Street, avatars just walk right through each other.
Chpt 5-6
When things get this jammed together, the computer simplifies things by drawing all of the avatars ghostly and translucent so you can see where you're going.
Chpt 5-6
And in that instant he becomes solid and visible to all the avatars milling outside.
Chpt 5-6
Now that he's all by himself in the entryway, no longer immersed in a flood of avatars, he can see all of the people in the front row of the crowd with perfect clarity.
Chpt 5-6
They are all done up in their wildest and fanciest avatars, hoping that Da5id-The Black Sun's owner and hacker-in-chief—will invite them inside.
Chpt 5-6
There are would-be rock stars done up in laser light, as though they just stepped off the concert stage, and the avatars of Nipponese businessmen, exquisitely rendered by their fancy equipment, but utterly reserved and boring in their suits.
Chpt 5-6
The Street protocol states that your avatar can't be any taller than you are.
Chpt 5-6

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
Besides, if this guy's using a pay terminal-which he must be, to judge from the image quality-it can't jazz up his avatar.
Chpt 5-6
Hiro's trying to read some clues in the guy's face, but the closer he looks, the more his shifty black-and-white avatar seems to break up into jittering, hard-edged pixels.
Chpt 5-6
The hypercard is an avatar of sorts.
Chpt 5-6
And that way all attention can be focused on the avatars, which is the way people like it.
Chpt 7-8

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
It doesn't pay to have a nice avatar on the Street, where it's so crowded and all the avatars merge and flow into one another.
Chpt 7-8

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
It doesn't pay to have a nice avatar on the Street, where it's so crowded and all the avatars merge and flow into one another.
Chpt 7-8

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
In The Black Sun, avatars are not allowed to collide.
Chpt 7-8
The avatars look like real people.
Chpt 7-8
In The Black Sun, a daemon is like an avatar, but it does not represent a human being.
Chpt 7-8

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
It even has bouncer daemons that get rid of undesirables— grab their avatars and throw them out the door, applying certain basic principles of avatar physics.
Chpt 7-8

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
It even has bouncer daemons that get rid of undesirables— grab their avatars and throw them out the door, applying certain basic principles of avatar physics.
Chpt 7-8

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
Hiro's avatar stops moving and stares at her, adopting just the same facial expression with which he used to stare at this woman years ago.
Chpt 7-8
At the time, both of them were working on avatars.
Chpt 7-8

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
She was the face department, because nobody thought that faces were all that important-they were just flesh-toned busts on top of the avatars.
Chpt 7-8
It's ironic that Juanita has come into this place in a low-tech, black-and-white avatar.
Chpt 7-8

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
She was the one who figured out a way to make avatars show something close to real emotion.
Chpt 7-8

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
That is a fact Hiro has never forgotten, because she did most of her work when they were together, and whenever an avatar looks surprised or angry or passionate in the Metaverse, he sees an echo of himself or Juanita-the Adam and Eve of the Metaverse.
Chpt 7-8

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
Normally, such subtle gestures are lost in the system's noise, but Da5id has a very good personal computer, and Juanita helped design his avatar-so the message comes through like a shot fired into the ceiling.
Chpt 7-8
Rock star avatars have the hairdos that rock stars can only wear in their dreams.
Chpt 7-8

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
Juanita is right behind him, standing out in her black4nd-white avatar, looking good anyway.
Chpt 7-8

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
I hope you don't mind talking to me in this ugly fax-of-life avatar.
Chpt 7-8
The fancy avatars all turn around to watch her as she goes past them; the movie stars give her drop-dead looks, and the hackers purse their lips and stare reverently.
Chpt 9-10

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
An avatar materializes on the table in front of Da5id, starting out ghostly and transparent, gradually becoming solid and three-dimensional.
Chpt 9-10

avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
It's a really trite effect, Hiro and Da5id are already laughing, The avatar is a stark naked Brandy.
Chpt 9-10
Maybe Da5id really looks that way; maybe Snow Crash has messed up his avatar somehow so that it's no longer tracking Da5id's true facial expressions.
Chpt 9-10
You used to design avatars for rock stars, right?
Chpt 9-10

avatars = digital representations of computer-users
Above the heads of the milling avatars, Hiro can see a fan of orange beams radiating outward from some point in the middle of the crowd.
Chpt 9-10

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(1) (avatar as in: her avatar in cyberspace)
a digital representation of a computer-user in a multi-user virtual reality site
(2) (avatar as in: an avatar of the god, Vishnu)
an earthly manifestation of one of the Hindu gods in human or animal form
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Avatar is commonly used as a proper noun for titles of films, books, television shows, computer games, songs, and band names.

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