Female Facial Attractiveness Scale

rivan

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Very interesting:

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.

From here.
 

Eli

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Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: rivan
Very interesting:

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.

From here.

No wonder those pics look so creepy.

Interesting indeed, though. I don't find the face attractive overall, but anything from the 5s to the 8s looks good to me.

I don't like narrow faces.
 

CraKaJaX

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
it looks like a thin face and bigger eyes (doe eyes) are ftw.

Well fat faces aren't very attractive, so I guess you're half right. :p
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: Anubis
8.5-8.9 IMO looks the best the 10 one is too pale
lol, weird, I didn't even pay any attention to skin tone.
 

Xstatic1

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Originally posted by: Anubis
8.5-8.9 IMO looks the best the 10 one is too pale

i'm in agreement with u, she is the cutest. also, the 9.0-9.4 should be bumped down to 7.5-7.9
 

Nik

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The 7.0-7.4 seems quite cute to me. The others just look like weird monsters :confused: