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] /boston/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] /boston/2007/08/28/average.man.jpg

[4] /boston/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] /boston/2011/08/12.2

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