Via Pharyngula I found the website of the St. Andrew's Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer. It lets you upload an image of your face and then morph it in various ways. I made the mistake of trying the transformation called 'Botticelli' first: it made me look quite nice, very much like someone who'd feel at home wafting in on a sea-shell. This was a mistake since it lulled me into letting down my guard and trying the rest. 'Modigliani' just made me look a bit unhinged, but when I tried transforming myself into a man, a West Indian, an Afro-Caribbean, and worst of all, an Ape-Man -- well, let's just say that you should ask yourself, seriously, whether you really want to know what you'd look like if you were half chimpanzee and half human, since if you click that innocent-looking button you will find out.
Botticelli was nice, though.
i liked my Modigliani. and all my dark-skinned variations made me look like a real bad-ass. sweet.
Posted by: cleek | January 12, 2005 at 11:43 PM
... i should add...
i've got a 'baby face'. even at 34, even if i'm sporting a full beard, i get carded buying beer. the dark-skinned variations got rid of that and made me look like an actual adult, somehow. the other human variations just looked like ... me.
not that dark-skin = bad-ass , etc.
Posted by: cleek | January 12, 2005 at 11:58 PM
...i should add...
i've got a 'baby face'. even at 34, even if i'm sporting a full beard, i get carded buying beer. the dark-skinned variations got rid of that and made me look like an adult, but with crazy distored features. the other human variations just looked like ... me.
not that dark-skin = bad-ass, etc. :)
Posted by: cleek | January 13, 2005 at 12:00 AM
sorry bout the 2x
Posted by: cleek | January 13, 2005 at 12:01 AM
Come on, now. I thought I looked pretty good as an ape-man.
Posted by: PZ Myers | January 13, 2005 at 03:23 PM