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People don’t always have a photo posted in online discussion sites. Even if they do, their personality can create certain imagined images.
This idea is to build a web site where people draw faces, based on what they think a user’s appearance is. Other members could rate the drawings in a poll.
Rate on realism vs. fantasy, on whether or not the subject drew it himself, etc. Or members could submit descriptions, try to produce a consensus, then assign a person to draw the face. All from people who’ve never met you in person. Do you dare to see how others “see” you?
Draw with simple computer sketch artist software like Hoyle Games characters use [link]. The pictures can then be grouped by the various sites that have anonymous user names. It’s not limited to (or necessarily designed for) this site.
"Physiognomy" is the practice of divining someone's personality by facial features and body structure. But this idea is about guessing a person's appearance based mostly on what they've written.
Hoyle Games' Facemaker.
http://i47.tinypic.com/2dipmcg.jpg
A feature of that game software lets you create an "avatar". [Amos Kito, Oct 04 2004, last modified Apr 29 2012]
Halfbakery psychological types.
http://www.halfbake...ychological_20types
[Amos Kito, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Halfbakery Database
http://www.halfbake...lfbakery_20Database
[Amos Kito, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Baked by yours truly on this idea.
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Sidebrows
But I’m not saying who I think it is. [Shz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Physiognomy Software: Draw someone and it tells you their personality.
http://www.uniphiz.com/physiognomy.htm
This doesn't seem to do the reverse (draw, based on personality). But if it did, it would be getting close to my idea. Except that it's a computer guess rather than a human guess. [Amos Kito, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog"
http://www.unc.edu/...emics/dri/idog.html
Peter Steiner cartoon in The New Yorker [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
[link]
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Just about everyone here generates a face in my mind. + |
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Mmm, nice. Is there any online
"Identikit"-style face-construction
software that could be used? |
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Actually, it'd be kind of fun to get 10-15 of the users here to donate a face pic of themselves and then someone could build a halfbakery identi-kit. Everyone would end up looking like DrCurrBubbaksraAOhippoTigersqueakmiss. |
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Could be scary. On the other hand
it could be fun to try. Anyone who
wants to send me a scan of a
passport photo will be added to an
identikit which I'll post back here. |
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It's interesting how different people can be from your perception of them. I was quite surprised when I got an idea of blissmiss's age (I expected her to be around my age). Also, the first time I saw a picture of DrCurry, I thought it was a fake that he had cribbed from somewhere on the internet. |
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People still sometimes assume that I'm male which amuses me. |
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I really like this idea (+). |
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//People still sometimes assume that I'm male which amuses me.// Me too. |
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////People still sometimes assume that I'm male which amuses me.// Me too.////me too :) |
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In my halfbakery infancy I thought UnaBubba was a one-breasted woman. |
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(I love the idea, by the way) |
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Guess who I'm picturing with a grumpy expression. And one of you has always been a wrinkled old man, sitting cross-legged. Great idea +. |
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//People still sometimes assume that I'm male //... |
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If only I was afforded that luxury! |
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madradish, et al: Sheesh - everyone who's seen my photo tells me how different I looked from their mental image. Guess I should fishbone this idea... |
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What’s the big mystery? Didn’t I see all of you here last night <one unsteady foot on the bar rail, pluter starts to waver> Dr. Curry with his head made outta an old cue ball and UB <crashes to floor> with her single monstrous boob, oh yes...and po the mysterious gentleman who rushed at me from under the stairs when...<now hippo takes pluter’s abandoned seat, blocking our view. Sadly, pluter’s final words were lost in the general hubbub of the bakery, which she had somehow mistaken for the Old Pink Dog Bar>
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I can't see how this could possibly be a good thing for me. |
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I dunno - there's only so much a Yoda lookalike could say. I'm waiting for your voice overs. |
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[hippo] Passport photos? Are you serious? You’d be better off collecting our most recent mug shots, or even high school yearbook pictures. And what about all those Canadians who aren’t allowed to smile? |
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Something about face recognition software for security purposes.....seems rather American Gothic to me. |
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I look just like my voice sounds, but taller. |
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<giggles> Actually, DrC you weren't too different to what I had pictured. That was the scary thing. |
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Okay, my curiosity has been sated. But I won't tell you which pictures I'm saving. |
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I meant, I won't tell you *who's* pictures I'm saving. ;P |
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An excellent idea. This is effectively a transformation of written text to human facial image. Once you had gathered enough data you could do some mining and try to discover which written features lead the average reader to assume that the writer is grotesque or shiny or huge or pubescent etc. With enough data you could automate the process and create a web site where one could submit a record of one's written works and see the average reader's view of oneself. Just in case this text ever gets included in such an analysis, here are some keywords to influence how I'd like other to see me: rippling, gargantuan, ethereal, quirky, better stop or self-obsessed will be suggested. |
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as a newbie here i am constantly trying to figure out who's male or female. part of the fun maybe. but also a lot of the charm of the internet is not knowing what people look like because of the instant mental associations we have with looks and age and all that. as for people drawing pics of each other, based on some of the criticism here that could be pretty scary. still, a great idea. |
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I tend to significantly underestimate people's ages, it would seem. |
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//...for the slashdot guy//
Then "let's do something" with that Summary... |
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Is this baked yet? I want to participate. |
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//seems rather American Gothic (to me.)// whatever happened to that? |
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Too much fun! But since most of my posts are in the food section, I'd be afraid people would draw me to look like a little, chubby housewife. |
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Are you a little, chubby housewife? |
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