These women do not exist. They each are a composite of about 30 faces
that I created to find out the current standard of good looks on the
Internet.
On the popular Hot or Not web site, people rate others’ attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10.
An average score based on hundreds or even thousands of individual
ratings takes only a few days to emerge.
I collected some photos from the site, sorted them by rank and used SquirlzMorph to create multi-morph composites from them. Unlike projects like Face of Tomorrow or Beauty Check where the subjects are posed for the purpose, the portraits are
blurry because the source images are low resolution with differences
in posture, hair styles, glasses, etc, so that I could use only 36
control points for the morphs.
What did I conclude about good looks from these virtual faces? First,
morphs tend to be prettier than their sources because face asymmetries
and skin blemishes average out. However, the low score images show
that fat is not attractive. The high scores tend to have narrow faces.
I will leave it to you to find more differences and to do a similar
project for men.
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cbeauche 19 months ago | reply
Un article aujourd'hui avec ta photo en exemple:
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/equations-for-geeks/?p...
Veronica Kai 18 months ago | reply
I love this.
a.j.schouten 15 months ago | reply
Hea Pierre, question - I am part of a social neuroscience research group and we are doing
an experiment on social comparision and attractiveness. We also use face morphs to acces different degrees of attractiveness. We are now in the stadium of finding more raw (rated) data to use in our morphs. Do you still have acces to the faces you used in your morphs? If you do, are you willing to share them? Please contact us at a.j.schouten@students.uu.nl
Karlaofallpeople 5 months ago | reply
I love how racism, sexism and casual dismissal of personality are so well balanced here. Awesome job