# Averaging or Mean of two different 3D shaped models 

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**Created:** [March 18, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/averaging-or-mean-of-two-different-3d-shaped-models/34940 "2024-03-18T02:52:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/averaging-or-mean-of-two-different-3d-shaped-models/34940/2 "2024-03-20T14:39:23Z")

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Hi,

SlicerSALT was mentioned in a previous thread (["Averaging" 3D models](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/averaging-3d-models/6660)) but I don’t have personal experience with it.

For a research project previously, I’ve used the GIAS2 package in Python to build a statistical shape model from a number of mandibles. One of the components of the shape model is an average structure. The only caveat is that I do not know if it will work with only 2 samples.

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