Never tried it. Second one is creepy... but not as creepy as the guy. *shivers*

I once had someone tell me they printed my photo out from LL (well, she said, "I printed it and use it often"). Note: the only stalker I've ever met. Run OS, Run!

Wow, that's both scary and fascinating.

Yeah, that's pretty scary.

Part of the reason the third one looks good is because your eyes are spread wider apart than they are.

Huh, I look a little like Sean Penn. ;)

Does this guy maybe have a room at home dedicated to you? A shrine?

The asymetricalness of a face is part of it's beauty, even if it is not immediately noticeable.

Internet dating is just one adventure after another, dobbs.

I've heard before that symmetry is a very important factor in attractiveness, and almost the first thing I thought of when I saw this was, Good Lord, I never realized it was THAT important. This seemed to me to be a really cool and remarkably effective way to demonstrate that.

I think you need to be facing the camera perfectly full on for it to really work, porpoise. Yours look funny, though. You seem to lose and then gain about 60 pounds.

Someone did this with a photo of Britney Spears a year or so ago. Unfortunately, google hates me today but there was an interesting article with it.

I just did it in photoshop, but then photoshop had an "unexpected error" and I hadn't saved it yet. It looked weird for sure, but then again, I wasn't facing the camera entirely straight on.

If I get some energy back I'll do it again and post it later.

hmmm - I guess you can't polish a turd.

You're hardly a turd, porpoise, you cutie. You just have an almost perfectly symmetrical face.

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Now I know what my clone army will look like!

In art, symmetry is pleasing, asymmetry more interesting. In art and design one tries to balance the two.

My favourite feature about my face is the way I get a little dimple on my left cheeck when I smile. I don't think a double-dimple would be as interesting.

PS. Orange Swan is a fox.

oh! Space Coyote, my son has a single dimple like that. I think it is the cutest thing. And I agree that it is far more interesting than two.

"The asymetricalness of a face is part of it's beauty, even if it is not immediately noticeable."

Cross-cultural beauty studies have shown that youth and symmetry are the only two constants across all human cultures.

However, I know that in our culture, there is a minority that prefers asymmetrical faces. A recent study has shown a correlation to this to having parents with asymmetrical faces. IIRC, this was true with adopted children, so it was not genetic, but some form of normalization.

There's a web site out there somewhere, I think connected to that study, that will present to the visitor various headshots to be judged according to physical beauty. From this, they can decide if the visitor prefers symmetrical or asymmetrical faces. Apparently, I myself prefer asymetrical faces. This didn't come as a complete surprise because there's a variety of ways in which my standards for physical beauty are outlying (but not extreme).

The photo manipulation things orange swan's admirer did is something I've heard of, too. It really will emphasize how symmetrical or asymmetrical someone's face really is.

OSwan, Mr. Photostalker was about 1 pixel off on the center of your nose, which was why one of the pictures had that "Michael Jackson Nose" look. Here's what I got playing with your original pic:
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Your hair and your shoulders were obviously not positioned evenly, resulting in some of the biggest differences between the two mirrors. And that's a crooked smile you got there, honey. I was considering playing with the pictures further, but I am NOT a stalker. (Just a guy with too much spare time)

And I'd have tried the mirror face on myself, but right now I have an infection in one eye that is making me look like I'm winking at everyone, so I am very unnaturally asymetrcial right now... maybe later.

In wendell's version of Orange Swan, the left photo looks like an elf high on something.

I've thought about doing this with myself but I rarely have a face-on photograph.

The photoshopped symmetrical versions of you all look kind of creepy.

He fucked it up because he didn't ajust the angle of your head. Idiot.

She's still hot.

The internet gives me nightmares.

Marilyn Munroe had an asymmetrical face.

The problem with passport style portrait pictures is that you always end up looking like a sex offender, regardless of facial symmetry.

When I say you, I mean me.