This face transforming tool from St Andrew’s University gave me a bit of a surprise. Upload an image to the web site, tell it where your eyes and mouth are, and it transforms your face – older, younger, Asian, even half chimp – but the ageing made the biggest impression on me. My picture as an older man reminded me of an artists’ impression of the Beatles as older men in a lyrics book of theirs from the seventies. The formula to age someone is obviously constant if you can do it with software – your skin droops, shows signs of ageing from the sun, your hair greys.
Seeing yourself as an older person is trying to look into the future, but physiognomy isn’t enough. You’re much more than the image of your face – your experiences and relationships are arguably more important, and make up the biggest part of you. Seeing an older version of yourself is like seeing a shell of a person – I don’t know this bloke.
I’ll be signing up to do some experiments on the Face Research web site – lots of interesting sounding stuff including facial attractiveness experiments.
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