Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Right? Even though everyone's charmed by wildly different kinds of physical characteristics, that hasn't stopped our old friend science from stepping in and asserting truths about what we are biologically inclined to find appealing.
Julian Wolkenstein was intrigued that those with symmetrical faces were widely seen as more attractive, and set out to consider the idea in a series of portraits that mirror both the left and right halves of an individual's visage, resulting in two often quite different depictions of the same person.
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By an interesting coincidence some of the kids at my son's school in years 4 and 5 have just undertaken an interesting excercise. They printed out a photograph of one side of their face, with the other half of the paper blank. They then drew in the other half of their face.
Most of the pictures look like the kid in question. The reason being that they've drawn in the missing half of their face rather than making the image symetrical.
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