An Israeli computer-science grad student has designed a program that judges how attractive women are.
According to Haaretz, the program identifies basic facial features that are considered beautiful. For his master’s thesis at Tel Aviv University, Amit Kagian had human participants rate the beauty of photographed faces. He then processed the photos and mathematically mapped the faces by computer, coming up with 98 numbers that represent the geometric shape of the face, hair color, smoothness of skin, facial symmetry, and other characteristics. The computer then uses these dimensions to predict how human subjects would rate other female faces.
The study only covered female faces because “there is a greater variety of positions regarding male beauty,” Haaretz said. —Catherine Rampell
