Hi,

I was wondering if there are tests out there that suggest they can pin
down what features of a woman's face attract a particular person?

Also, things of this sort would be of interest and would greatly impact a tip. :-)

Thank you.

-Mao

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 31 Jan 2006 22:52 PST

Oh! Here's one site where you can edit and morph a face
to your heart's content, and that will give you a very
good idea what you find attractive - Morphases:
http://www.morphases.com/editor/

sublime1-ga

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Clarification of Question by 6ra3-ga on 01 Feb 2006 06:13 PST

Hi Sublime1,

I loved your comment about "..rank faces with
minute variations and then tells you precisely what kinds of
features you favor." and would love to wait a little till you find it if you can.

I've also adjusted the price on this question.

-Mao

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Clarification of Question by 6ra3-ga on 01 Feb 2006 06:14 PST

Hi,

Actually, I can't adjust till you release it. :-)

-Mao

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 01 Feb 2006 10:37 PST

Hi Mao...

The link provided by jackburton-ga is precisely the site
I was referring to, and spent hours looking for last night.
Please explore the site and let me know if that test, along
with the Morphases site, does, indeed, satisfy your interests
in "pinning down what features of a woman's face attract a 
particular person".

If so, I'll post an answer, and will find a way to reward
my colleague jackburton-ga...  ; )

sublime1-ga

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Clarification of Question by 6ra3-ga on 01 Feb 2006 11:00 PST

Hi,

Indeed it's what I'm looking for so go ahead and paste it. :-)

-Mao

Mao...

I stumbled across a page which is exactly what you're looking
for, and has you rank faces with minute variations and then 
tells you precisely what kinds of features you favor. 

For example it might pinpoint that you demonstrate a preference
for a feminine jawline, but that the eyes you prefer are set 
apart at a distance that is more common among males.

My colleague jackburton-ga located it before I was able to
re-discover it in my browser(s) history(s) and bookmarks.

It's a test named Face Perception 1, developed by Professor
David Perrett and Dr Tony Little of the University of St Andrews:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/faceperception1/index.shtml


And here's another site where you can edit and morph a face
to your heart's content, and that will give you a very good
idea what you find attractive - Morphases:
http://www.morphases.com/editor/


Best regards...

sublime1-ga

Thanks a lot! :-)

-Mao

Mao --

I've long kept this research report bookmarked because I find it so fascinating:
Beautycheck
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/index.htm

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Clearly I haven't had enough beer, she doesn't look attractive to me
at all... she does have nice skin, but that's about it. The doll on
top is more my type, tall forehead, small face, full lips, wide eyes,
button nose :-)

Maybe DaVinci had it right. Could it be the enigmatic smile?

This is so frustrating. I stumbled across a page which is
exactly what you're looking for, and has you rank faces with
minute variations and then tells you precisely what kinds of
features you favor. For example it might pinpoint that you
demonstrate a preference for a feminine jawline, but that 
the eyes you prefer are set apart at a distance that is 
more common among males.

Unfortunately, I cant find it anywhere...  : (

I think this is the one sublime1-ga is referring to:
  
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/faceperception1/index.shtml

Hi,

Well, I'm sticking with my promise, so please stick the question in
the answer area and I'll give you a five. :-)

Thanks!

-Mao

I refere you to this article.  It is AI technology.

"The automatic measurement of facial beauty"

Aarabi, P.   Hughes, D.   Mohajer, K.   Emami, M. 

This paper appears in: Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
2001 IEEE International

Abstract:

We develop an automatic facial beauty scoring system based on ratios
between facial features. After isolating the face, eyes, eyebrows and
mouth in a portrait photograph, we represent a face abstractly as an
8-element vector of ratios between these features. We use a variant of
the K-nearest neighbor algorithm, in the context of a parameterized
metric space optimized using a genetic algorithm, to learn a beauty
assignment function from a training set of photographs rated by
humans. We assess performance on a test set of photographs, concluding
that when facial ratios are accurately extracted in the computer
vision phase, the results of the program are highly correlated with
median-human ratings of beauty