How can you calculate a perfect face?
The perfect face! Everyone has their own idea of what a perfect face should look like for them. Women often look great when they have full lips, high cheekbones, and a small nose. Men may have a striking, powerful chin. But can you also calculate the perfect face? Psychologists set about answering this question with mathematical methods and found interesting results ...
The cosmetic surgeon Stephen Marquardt is firmly convinced that the beauty of a face can be measured with a measuring tape. He speaks of the golden ratio.
Calculating a perfect face with the golden ratio
In the golden ratio, two routes are related to each other if the ratio of the longer route to the smaller one is the same as the sum of the two together to the greater one. According to this, for example, the ratio of the width of the mouth to the width of the nose corresponds to the golden ratio (= 1: 1.61803). This "mask of beauty" formula, calculated and established by Marquardt, is intended to show whether the chin is too full, the mouth too narrow or the
eyes are too small. That sounds very cerebral and arbitrary, but what is striking is that this mask fits perfectly on the faces of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie!The perfect face is average
As early as 1878, Francis Galton (mathematician) discovered the attractiveness of even faces. Quite coincidentally, however! When trying to expose some faces of criminals on photo paper one on top of the other, and thus the "typical To expose criminals, he found that all averaged average faces were more attractive than that Originals.
The phenomenon was later investigated using computer technology by Judith Langlois (psychologist) and her colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin. With the result: attractiveness is average! So this is the beauty formula: golden ratio = Ø = beautiful? At least that would be a finding that could be explained neurophysiologically. Because neurons, which signal the brain to see something beautiful, particularly like the known things and they have seen the average most often.
It is also crucial that average faces become even more beautiful when certain features are accentuated. For example, if you raise your cheekbones a little or make your eyes a tad bigger, your attractiveness increases immediately. That was discovered by Dave Perret, a psychologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Caricaturists also use this method: They emphasize the typical. The beauty formula can therefore be expanded to: golden ratio = Ø + emphasis = beautiful = preferred.
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If you can calculate the perfect face, does individual taste play no role at all?
Yes, of course he does. All these bills to the perfect face only show a tendency. If one person likes brown doe eyes and the other finds green almond eyes particularly sympathetic, there are very personal reasons that cannot be explained with a real calculation.
