<< There would be many committees formed to address the topic and no doubt some subcommittees would be needed to ensure the chosen person(s) represented a cross-cultural and possibly unisex version of an American. We'd end up with a composite of everyone. It would suck, of course.
Sad, very sad...but very true. >>
Don't be so sure about that. A couple years back Discover Magazine had an article on "What is beauty" and how it is perceived. It followed a study that showed that the more a face matched an "averaged" face the more attractive it was judged to be. They also found that the more faces averaged together into a composite, the more attractive the result was judged to be. The article had a female composite that had been averaged from over 1024 faces and it was a knockout. Here are a couple of examples, I'm sore the pictures aren't bigger. The first is an example or averaged male faces and the second is female faces. From top to bottom it is 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 faces.
So if they averaged everyone, maybe the result wouldn't be too bad.
Who was the model for the AGE, circa 1986? If you place them side by side, you will notice the AGE version is very slimmed down from the curvy Miss Liberty on the Double Eagle (especially the arms).
In all seriousness, I totally agree with you but only if he had to pick a celebrity. If St. Gaudens were working today, I'll bet he would find his own talent through a modeling agency or even Craig's List.
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Sad, very sad...but very true. >>
Don't be so sure about that. A couple years back Discover Magazine had an article on "What is beauty" and how it is perceived. It followed a study that showed that the more a face matched an "averaged" face the more attractive it was judged to be. They also found that the more faces averaged together into a composite, the more attractive the result was judged to be. The article had a female composite that had been averaged from over 1024 faces and it was a knockout. Here are a couple of examples, I'm sore the pictures aren't bigger. The first is an example or averaged male faces and the second is female faces. From top to bottom it is 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 faces.
So if they averaged everyone, maybe the result wouldn't be too bad.
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In all seriousness, I totally agree with you but only if he had to pick a celebrity. If St. Gaudens were working today, I'll bet he would find his own talent through a modeling agency or even Craig's List.
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