Facial Prototype for Attractiveness, and Me as an Old Man

I read this interesting article on seedmagazine.com about an experiment done by the people at faceresearch.org which correllated facial processing-time with attractiveness. You can read into the specifics here, but what I found most interesting was the 'prototypical attractive female face,' which was created through a sort of amalgamation of 15 women's faces (she can be seen at the previous link).

They assigned a lined geometric pattern to each face, attaching specific points to the pattern (such as eyes, nose, mouth, etc) then calculated the average difference in the distances between certain points. They then took that average difference and, using some kind of facial picture editing program, moved each woman's geometric points by the average, then essentially combined all 15 faces to create the prototypical attractive female. Pretty cool.

But on to the second part of my post. These same people also created a program to transform your own face... And using that (found here), here is me as an old man:

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Looks like I stop holding out any hope of my upper lip remaining intact (what the hell?).