telophase: (Gojyo - Soviet Russia kappa feels you!)
telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2005-11-25 08:11 pm
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A challenge to you!

If you enjoy laughing your ass off looking at my pictures here, you should go to the site and do it yourself, and post the results. :D HEY I MADE A FOOL OF MYSELF IN PUBLIC, YOU CAN DAMN WELL DO IT, TOO!

OK. So today I'm clicking around the net and manage to find my way to the Perception Lab site, from the School of Psychology at the University of St. Andrew in Scotland. And they've got this funky Java applet that will allow you to upload a photo of yourself, then it'll morph it a bit in the direction of various ages, ethnicities, and artists. I immediately did so, and here you can see the results.



Their save function isn't working right now, so I used screenshots.



You probably recognize the photo from my Woman with Artichoke picture. It's taken with my phone, so when I blow the picture up to the required size in the applet... Image hosted by Photobucket.com
... it's way fuzzy. Which means you'll have to squint and back away from the monitor to get a reasonable idea of what the morphs look like, but you'll live. I don't have a better photo of myself anywhere I can find. I also had my head turned slightly to the side, resulting in everything being weirdly off about the head, sicne teh morphs assume you're facing directly into the camera. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Baby. Note one problem: I failed to erase my glasses from my face, which means they're incorporate dinto the morph. Not too bad, except in the case of this one, since without my glasses I don't actually recognize myself. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Child. Eh. Doesn't really resemble me, from what I can remember of photos I've seen. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Teen. Definitely doesn't resemble me as a teen, but then again I had some serious '80s hair at the time. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Older adult. Doesn't resemble any of my female relatives that I can recall. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Afro-Caribbean. Not too bad. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
East Asian. Can't quite place what country it looks like I should be from, although I don't look Japanese. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
West Asian. Getting quite the cleft in my chin. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Masculinization. HOLY SHIT IT'S MY DAD. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Take 2 - I decided to slap a beard on in Photoshop, since Dad was bearded for a good portion of his life. The resemblance sort of fell away once it went on - I take this to mean that the upper half of my face takes more after my mother. I know my nose is my Dad's, and his dad's befre him, and his dad's before him. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Now we get into the fun stuff. Modigliani. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Botticelli. Not too bad. I could be a Botticelli. Ah, but which? Venus? Springtime? Allegory of Artichoke? Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Mucha. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Manga Cartoon (hey, that's *their* category name). AGH NO CREEPY GET IT OFF ME Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Apeman - 50% Chimp (again, their title). I like to think that my ancestors were particularly studious australopithecines. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Drunk. Uh, no. Just ... no. Image hosted by Photobucket.com
And back to normal, just to ground yourself. Image hosted by Photobucket.com

[identity profile] heyoka.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Meep. HTML kinda wonky? I think you need closing quotes around "top" for the valign.

[identity profile] tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
look at my highlights!

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baby malice!!!


[so creepy!]


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AHH MANGA CARTOON!

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
CREEPY. Your baby pic looks like pone of those retouched-farther-than-humanly-possibly pageant baby pics. XD At least the manga cartoon looks better than mine. XD

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
I was working on it as you were posting this. :D It's all better now. (I also lost a tag in one of the tables for a while, but it's back now)

[identity profile] tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, i was a much cuter kid than that

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'm working on scanning a couple pictures of when I was a kid in Africa, to see how they compare to teh Child pic here. And I got the idea of using one of the child pics in the applet to see how it looks when I age it. XD

[identity profile] riofriotex.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
love the Allegory of Artichoke.

Thanks for posting this; I'm gonna play around with it when I get bored with classes and there's nothin' in LJ.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Man, it's such a cool way to waste time. XD
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[identity profile] viridian5.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Manga me is smiling like she's humoring the guy who has a gun shoved into her back.

Image

It amuses me that her eyes are purple.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Or it's right before the point where the room bursts into psychic flame. XD
seajules: (work in progress)

[personal profile] seajules 2005-11-26 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
The last time this link made the rounds, I made this icon. You've reminded me to upload it. I also rather liked how I looked Mucha-fied, but you definitely make a much better Botticelli than I.

[identity profile] kittikattie.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
I'm using it with a pic of mine and it just cannot make the Caucasian work for anything. I look all washed out and, oddly enough, GOTH. Worked GREAT with my boyfriend though. The Caucasian one made me gonk, especailly because he's half white.
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[identity profile] viridian5.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course she has psychic powers. This is manga me after all. She probably also has breasts the size of watermelons.

[identity profile] gweniveeve.livejournal.com 2005-11-26 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Wahahah! Those are great.

And yay for the University of St. Andrews!