The Average Faces of Vogue Cover Models Around the World
This portrait is the average face of Vogue cover models over the past 25 years.
These Portraits Show How Hollywood Beauty Has Changed Since 1920
How has Hollywood's idea of female beauty changed over the past century? Here's a collection of averaged portraits that tries to answer that question.
What Famous People Look Like When 50 Portraits of Them Are Averaged
What do you get when you combine 50 portraits of the same famous face and averaged the result? Reddit user Dwainosaur dared to not only ask the question but to pursue it. He gathered up a large collection of photos and wrote a script for averaging the results. Subjects include Brad Pitt, Jack Black, Billy Murray, and Barack Obama. Infamous faces include Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
The Ultimate Coalition: Averaging the Portraits of UK Political Leaders
The image above may look strangely familiar to you. That’s because it’s a facial average of the leaders of the main political parties in this week’s general election in the UK. If you've been following UK politics, you have probably seen these people many times in the media, leading to an involuntary familiarity with them.
A facial average like the one above is created by digitally altering each person’s face to a matching position and expression, and then morphing them all together to create an average.
Averaged Portraits Created Using Faces Found in Popular Movies
No, the creepy face above isn't a still frame of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named taken from one of the Harry Potter films. It's actually a composite portrait of countless faces found in the 2009 James Cameron science fiction film Avatar.
What Averaged Face Photographs Reveal About Human Beauty
A while back, PetaPixel posted some features about image averaging and faces. Richard Prince created a composite portrait of the 57 faces of girlfriends on Seinfeld. This led to Pat David exploring the averaging of faces with Martin Schoeller’s portraits of celebrities.
I’ve long been interested in image averaging as well; as a measure of central tendency, I like that image averaging can highlight similarities and differences across an array of seemingly equivalent images.
12.5 Years of Daily Self-Portraits Averaged into a Single Photograph
Earlier this month, Noah Kalina released an updated version of his everyday self-portrait time-lapse video, showing how …
The Average of All Photos One Man Shot in One Year
Photography enthusiast Sterling Parker created this abstract image by averaging all the photographs …
Composite Self-Portrait Made Using 500 Photographs of One Face
Inspired by Noah Kalina's viral everyday video a girl who goes by clickflashwhirr has been doing a similar self-portrait-a-day project. Designer Tiemen Rapati decided to make a composite image showing what the average of the self-portraits looks like. Taking 500 images from clickflashwhirr's Flickr set, Rapati wrote a script that counts the individual RGB values for each pixel, averaging them across the 500 portraits.
Average Faces of Women in 40 Countries Around the World
What you see here are portraits created by taking photographs of women in 40 different countries and averaging them with Face Research software. These are the most neutral faces for various nationalities.