Lhet on 3/3/2006 at 06:31

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(http://www.myheritage.com/)
You post an image of youself and it tells you what celebrities your face matches.
(http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/faceRecognitionFlash.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN&temp=131e7044pmbgh606&server=Server1&database=1&startYear=1800&endYear=2005)
I look like bob dylan and malcolm X apparently. Also, I used this one instead of the picture in the photo album because I'm looking straight at the camera for this one.


If nothing else, it's interesting.

Sypha Nadon on 3/3/2006 at 07:10

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Dear god... Jason Biggs...:eek:

Fafhrd on 3/3/2006 at 07:28

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it seems to do the match more on similarities in pose to the photos in their database than on actual facial features, because that's the only way I can think of that it comes up with (http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/faceRecognitionFlash.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN&temp=f6ee7044pn3o7x02&server=Server7&database=1&startYear=1800&endYear=2005) 66% match for Sylvester Stallone followed by 64% match for Christopher Lambert. And apparently I look more like Charles de Gaulle and Imre Kertesz (who the fuck is Imre Kertesz?) than I do Kenneth Branagh, which is pretty fucked up.

Spamlet on 3/3/2006 at 07:48

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Yeah, it's almost entirely random thus far...

Using a few shots from the same photo session my results were: Brian Epstein, Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Marlon Brando, Jane Russell, Leonard Cohen, Kevin Spacey, Brendan Fraser, Tom Hanks, Dan Rather, Richard Gere, Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie, Audrey Tatou, George Gershwin, Pierce Brosnan, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Vartan, Carson Daly and Joe Pesci.

All of whom are very similar looking, non?

In RL the ones I've gotten the most are Charlie Sheen, Christian Slater or (to my surprise) younger Harrison Ford and Tom Cruise.

I say it'd be more reliable to just ask the folks here who THEY think we look like so taking Lhet's cue here's the link to mine:

(http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/faceRecognitionFlash.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN&database=1&temp=f9de7044wla7g505&server=Server9&startYear=1800&endYear=2005)

Spitter on 3/3/2006 at 10:03

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I did this test when it was mentioned in irc some time ago, and, uh, I still haven't come to terms with the result.

http://www.interstellarburst.com/jani/img/lookalike.png


nooooooooooooo