December 18, 2009
the new golden ratio
In four experiments aimed at finding “an ideal facial feature arrangement,” US and Canadian researchers asked students to compare color photographs of the same woman’s face, in which the vertical distance between the eyes and mouth, and horizontal distance between the eyes, had been doctored using Photoshop.
The features — eyes, mouth, nose, contour and hair — remained the same and a woman’s face was only compared to her own, never to another’s.
Students looked at different pictures of the same woman’s face laid out side by side and selected the face they found more attractive.
“Angelina Jolie does not have golden length and width ratios,” he said.
“Elizabeth Hurley gets the golden ratio for length but is different from the width golden ratio by one percent.”
But Canadian country pop musician Shania Twain has “both the length and width ratios.”
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