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Self-portraitist clickflashwhirr has been snapping shots of her mug every day for over a year — and that’s nothing new on the net. But averaging 500 of those snaps into one artificial face? Beautifully creepy.
The digital composite was done by Tiemen Rapati, who explains he “simply [counted] the individual RGB values for each pixel and for each portrait, and [divided] those values by the number of portraits”. The result is a slightly hazy, easy on the eyes, year-plus amalgamation of a woman. It’s dreamlike but unsettling to think the face we’re looking at here never really existed. I wonder if her face hurt after making that same expression over and over and over and over again? [Tiemen Rapati via Colossal]
HR
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 9:44 AMwow
LGB
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 10:33 AMWTF?
Let me get this straight..
Some lame photographer took 500 photos of the same beautiful woman’s face over a period of a year and a half.
Morphed them and got a composite photo of the same beautiful woman’s face and now everybody is standing around going Ooo, Ahh you’re a fucking genius?
While the photographer is wondering if her face hurts..
He may as well have taken pictures of a lamp post over a 12 month period..
olearymo
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 10:38 AMThe photographer isn’t wondering anything LGB, Sam was.
Also, sit down, take a deep breath.
Jaymz
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 11:32 AMIt also says ‘self-portraitist’. She took the photos herself. There are only 6 and a half lines of text, and I don’t think you read any of them.
Stefan
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 10:38 AMLol she likes her red scarf :3
Ammusionist
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 10:46 AMI would not say it never existed – It is an anaysis of how a real face has changed over the course of a year.
Go take a picture of 500 different people and average them – then you might have something that never existed!
sketchy
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 11:31 AMalready been done:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/average-faces-of-women-from-around-the-world
Steve
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 4:55 PM“Beautifully creepy”
I wonder if the author would have said this if she was an ugly woman and the result was just a blurry ugly woman.