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search beauty
digital prints from video stills
work in progress
Among several patterns classified as "comparable" by some subjective observer, the subjectively most beautiful is the one with the simplest (shortest) description, given the observer's particular method for encoding and memorizing it.
What is it that makes a face beautiful? Average faces obtained by photographic or digital blending are judged attractive but not optimally attractive - digital exaggerations of certain deviations from average face blends can lead to higher attractiveness ratings. Face design does not involve blending at all.
A face's beauty correlates with simplicity relative to the subjective observer's way of encoding it.
This is a personal method for encoding and search the beauty.
What is beauty? One could define it as the quality that gives pleasure, that which pleases the eye, ear or spirit, or, metaphysically speaking, the unity among diversity. Schopenhauer contrasted the contemplation of beauty against the evil. The earliest theories of beauty appear in the works of pre-Socratic philosophers, and various cultures deified it. In the 1990s, Jürgen Schmidhuber claimed that “among several patterns classified as "comparable" by some subjective observer, the subjectively most beautiful is the one with the simplest (shortest) description, given the observer's particular method for encoding and memorizing it.”1 What are the qualities which make a face beautiful? Is it symmetry? Or maybe proportion? Though it is difficult to define beauty exactly and describe it, one must acknowledge the mysterious signals and codes of bone structure and symmetry, the balances in relations among the body's features.
The power of art is largely based on transformation, which contains some essential metaphor about the way the world works and how we function as humans. Average faces obtained by photographic or digital blending are judged attractive but not necessarily attractive in the optimal definition of the term. Digital exaggerations of certain deviations of the average face blends create higher attractiveness ratings, but sometimes face design does not involve blending at all.
A face's beauty correlates with the simplicity relative to the subjective observer's way of encoding it. One just has to find the personal method for decoding and revealing it.
Notes
1. J. Schmidhuber. Facial beauty and fractal geometry.
Note IDSIA-28-98, IDSIA,
June 1998, published in the Cogprint Archive.
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