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"There's a really interesting article in The New York Times this morning about a \"beautification engine.\" According to the Times: \"The software program, developed by computer scientists in Israel, is based on the responses...\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest\n\nThere's a really interesting article in The New York Times this morning about a \"beautification engine.\" According to the Times:\n\n\"The software program, developed by computer scientists in Israel, is based on the responses of 68 men and women, age 25 to 40, from Israel and Germany, who viewed photographs of white male and female faces and picked the most attractive ones.\n\nScientists took the data and applied an algorithm involving 234 measurements between facial features, including the distances between lips and chin, the forehead and the eyes, or between the eyes.\n\nEssentially, they trained a computer to determine, for each individual face, the most attractive set of distances and then choose the ideal closest to the original face.\"\n\nClick through the slideshow of altered faces here and let me know what you think:\n\n Do you think the software \"beautifies\" people, or does it strip away the unique qualities that makes individuals striking? (I think Michael Cera was cuter beforehand!)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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