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                               The Average Human
                                        
[The photogenetically average woman] [1]
 

The woman you see above is the computed average face of all the women on the
Face Research Make an Average [2] page. I also did the average of all the men
on that page as well:

[The photogenetically average man] [3]
 

And because I couldn't resist—all the people on that page:

[The photogenetically average person] [4]
 

I'm now curious about how long it will take Hollywood to [DELETED-ab-
DELETED]use this technology when “casting” future films. “Hey! I need a
quintiscential white guy, a mystical black man [5] and Bruce Lee for my next
film. Could you guys photoshop up some [6] for me? That would be swell.
Thanks.”

“Do you want Bruce Lee Bruce Lee [7]? Him, we can do, but it'll cost you—
rights from his estate, you know. Or maybe Bruce Li [8]? I hear his image is
cheaper.”

“How about an average composite of Bruce Lee, Bruce Li, Jackie Chan [9] and
Jet Li [10]? I hear there're some new algorithms to average human movement
now, and I doubt anyone will ever notice our ‘borrowing’ from these guys.”

“Sounds great! Do it!”

Update on Friday, August 12^th, 2011

My prediction just got closer to reality [11].


[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2007/08/28/average.woman.jpg
[2] http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average?img=/tomcat/average/uploads/img85452.jpg&tem=/tomcat/average/uploads/img85453.tem
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2007/08/28/average.man.jpg
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2007/08/28/average.person.jpg
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro
[6] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHLpRxAmCrw
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Li
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chan
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Li
[11] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2011/08/12.2

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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