{"id":310,"date":"2007-08-17T03:59:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/morphing-symmetry\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T03:59:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T11:59:40","slug":"morphing-symmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/morphing-symmetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphing symmetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Raymond Brown has written in with another approach to looking at facial asymmetry. (This follows up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/left-abe-right-abe\/\" title=\"left face, right face\">my left face\/right face experiments.<\/a>) He explains his technique this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your experiments with facial asymmetry reminded me of some experiments of my own. What I did was impose an averaging symmetry on asymmetrical faces using a morphing program and a single photo with its mirrored version (see attachment). I find the results a little creepy, the celebrity instantly recognizable, but . . . a sort of hyper-idealized version of reality. De Niro&#8217;s rumpled face is symmetrically rumpled! And he&#8217;s staring you down as well!  Anyway, hope you enjoy it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve quoted from his e-mail with his generous permission. Here is an example of his work (I&#8217;ve adjusted the tones slightly and reduced the size to fit my window).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/averaged-morph.jpg\" title=\"averaged morphed image of de niro\" alt=\"averaged morphed image of de niro\" height=\"179\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like this approach. Whereas my approach spun new versions off from the center, emphasizing (and exaggerating) the differences between the two sides of a face, this technique elides the differences to produce a new middle out of bookends created by mirroring the initial image.<\/p>\n<p>LINK: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/leftface-rightface\/leftface-rightface1.htm\" title=\"left face, right face: studies in facial symmetry\">more examples<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Raymond Brown has written in with another approach to looking at facial asymmetry. (This follows up on my left face\/right face experiments.) He explains his technique this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}