Average Faces
Sunday 28th January, 2007 18:26 Comments: 5
Yamahito pointed me towards a couple of websites late last night, his first question was whether I thought one of the average faces he'd made was male or female, and then how hot I thought "she" looked. The eyebrows made me think the image was of a girl, but it was a bit of a close call. I think I then surprised him by saying that the average face was actually quite hot, as the face was uniform and the skin was flawless. I think the reasoning helped clear up the surprise, as the image was a composite of one man and one woman (EDIT: as mentioned below, it was an equal number of men and women, and he's kindly supplied the image for me so you can see what I mean). I had a play and if you had 3 men and 2 women then the image looked male, if you had 3 women and 2 men the person looked female, it was only the 50:50 ones that looked so average that it was basically impossible to tell. We also agreed it was interesting that you could put together several okay faces and end up with someone that looked a lot hotter, and that it's a shame that doesn't work that way in real life: when two ugly people have a baby, it's rare to see beautiful offspring. We then looked at the Face of Tomorrow site, to see what people looked like in various cities across the world.
We then had a play with the average face site, picking the girls we thought were hot, to see what it came up with. In my opinion, it created the perfect looking girl. It's a shame she's not real:
And this is what Yamahito came up with:
We then had a play with the average face site, picking the girls we thought were hot, to see what it came up with. In my opinion, it created the perfect looking girl. It's a shame she's not real:
And this is what Yamahito came up with:
Yamahito - Sunday 28th January, 2007 18:49 It was more than just one bloke and one girl - equal numbers.
And less ugly, rather than hot - it's amazing how many mongers there were and how averaging improved them.
And less ugly, rather than hot - it's amazing how many mongers there were and how averaging improved them.
I noticed that SB likes his women with thin lips and blue/grey eyes... It is an interesting question of what particular elements of women's faces do we find attractive? And that is before thinking about the rest of the body! ;)
I noticed that SB likes his women with thin lips and blue/grey eyes
My eyes are blue/grey, and I think you'd agree my lips are fairly thin too. I formed a theory many years back that people are often attracted to people that resemble them, as if you're comfortable with the way you look then you'll be comfortable with the way they look. I suspect many other people have come up with the same theory over the years, so I shouldn't try and claim it as mine.
My eyes are blue/grey, and I think you'd agree my lips are fairly thin too. I formed a theory many years back that people are often attracted to people that resemble them, as if you're comfortable with the way you look then you'll be comfortable with the way they look. I suspect many other people have come up with the same theory over the years, so I shouldn't try and claim it as mine.
Not the first time I have heard that theory and in some cases it may even be true. I know I am not especially consistent in what I like, but others are. The women in the post are attractive, but for some reason, I feel that there is an underlying level of hardness/untrustworthy. It is subconcious so hard to explain.
http://yamahito.net/blog/2007/01/29/facial-prototyping-transforming/
As for your theory: I suspect that it's true as far as it goes: those features about yourself that you like or are comfortable with (possibly genetic attributes that you want to be preserved?) you look for in a mate. Those aspects you don't, you look for the opposite, perhaps?
As for your theory: I suspect that it's true as far as it goes: those features about yourself that you like or are comfortable with (possibly genetic attributes that you want to be preserved?) you look for in a mate. Those aspects you don't, you look for the opposite, perhaps?