Scientific Websites

[Dael Wolf]

This thread is for links to scientific information related to portraying figures and faces.

The Anthrokids (http://ovrt.nist.gov/projects/anthrokids) website contains detailed measurements of the human body from infancy to age 19.


The Universities of Regensburg and Rostock (Germany) have a BeautyCheck (http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/index.htm) website where there is information about what makes for an attractive face.


Another perspective on this same topic is from the Langlois Lab (http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/students/DAVISD/langlois_version3/research/earlyprefexplanations.html) at The University of Texas, my alma mater.

[egerie]

Ha ! This is interesting. There is a thread around here somewhere talking about the "golden mask" and a TV show about beauty in the face, face recognition with sociological and mathematical explanation of beauty.

[Dael Wolf]

There was a TV show about Marquardt Beauty Analysis (http://www.beautyanalysis.com) . Their mission is to use math, science, and computers to research human aesthetics. I don't know how much validity there is to their claims, but it's an interesting website.