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    Beauty Rays Bombard A Woman's Face, While Her Mind Receives New Instructions

    "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face

    Re-Grow Your Skin With "Cosmeceuticals"

    I Want A Bionic Perm!
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    05/20/09

    In reply to Beauty Rays Bombard A Woman's Face, While Her Mind Receives New Instructions
    If only Matt Helm were there to rescue that poor woman and remind her that she is not a Pleasure Unit.
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    Image of icy_one icy_one
    05/20/09

    In reply to Beauty Rays Bombard A Woman's Face, While Her Mind Receives New Instructions
    "Did I fall asleep, For a little while"


    Charlie, you rule.

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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    11/07/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    They need to make a flash game out of this. Or how about an online estimator for total expenditures needed at a plastic surgery chop shop to get from Before to After. That would be sweet.
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    Image of resonanteye resonanteye
    11/07/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    so...where is the weblink to the cloud page that we can upload our own photos into? why did they need to build a separate "machine" to do this? It's not 1950, guys. Just slap the software online as a webtoy already
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/06/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    if you look at the top pictures (befores) and the bottom pictures (after)... all of the bottom pics look very sad...


    does the Beauty Machine change people's expression to include melancholy?????

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/06/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    Ummm...I confused. Which are the "Befores" and "Afters"?

    Eh, all you monkeys look the same to me.
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    11/06/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    And after removing all traces of personality from the pictures, the scientists emailed them to Greg Land to use as photo reference for the next issue of "Uncanny X-Men."
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    11/06/08

    @JennaW: Snrk!
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/06/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    If you look at the improved pictures, they do at first look "hotter."


    But if you keep looking at them, the original people tend to get better looking and the "improved" pictures take on a colder and less attractive look.


    I think it would be interesting to study how your looks ultimately model your personality. For example, I would take the study to another level and have people rate the original pictures on other aspects, such as "friendly" "unfriendly" "warm" "approachable" "unapproachable" and so on.


    What the results would mean I'm not sure, but I bet that after their so-called improvement process the later characteristics would decrease while the beauty ratings would increase.

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/06/08

    @twophrasebark: Just adding that would the change in numbers reflect the perceptions of the raters - or would it be environmental stresses of your looks changing your personality?
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    11/06/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    It helps when, as in the photo shown, the subjects are all objectively attractive before the algorithm is applied.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/06/08

    @Sproing: Yeah I thought the same thing. I personally can't tell if somebody is attractive unless I see them moving and talking . . . a smile or coy expression can turn a boring face into a cannot-look-away face in nanoseconds.
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    11/06/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    I think its kind of ironic, that a computer thinks the prettiest face is the most average.
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    Image of Adora Belle Dearheart Adora Belle Dearheart
    11/06/08

    @Log1c: ooh. nicely done.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/07/08

    @Log1c: It's just how the experiment is set up. Since it analyses a variety of people to find it's idea of 'beauty', all it really is doing is finding the look that is the least objectionable to a large group of people. Think American Idol. It's really just analyzing mass appeal, and not what an actual individual would find attractive.
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    11/06/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    Can it make me thinner?
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    Image of eviladrian eviladrian
    11/06/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    Is this the same as the De-Jewifier that was in Gizmodo last month?


    [gizmodo.com]


    Seems strange for an Israeli group to make a computer that turns everyone Aryan, but I guess it'll drum up more business for plastic surgeons.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/06/08

    @eviladrian: Yeah, it's the de-Jewifier. Hadn't thought of it that way, but I guess that makes sense. Maybe we need a re-Jewifier.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/06/08

    @Annalee Newitz: A re-Jewifier? A concept so ridiculous it makes me want to laugh out loud and chortle.. but not at you O holiest of gods with the wrathfulness and the vengence and the bloodrain and the "hey hey hey it hurts me"
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    Image of Aethyr Aethyr
    11/06/08

    In reply to "Beauty Machine" Makes Every Face a Pretty Face
    Was this the thing that said James Franco's face was perfect, because it didn't change anything?
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