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Sculpted Prims are coming to Second Life. While the recently released 1.15.0.2 viewer doesn’t yet support them, the FAQ mentions that they might be available in the beta viewer as early as next week.

It looks like the sculpted shapes are made by deforming a sphere according to a “sculpt texture” that maps R, G, and B values into X, Y, and Z. Nurbilicious.
For more juicy screen shots, see Torley’s Flickr stream.