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Caricature Generator

See a caricaturized version of yourself!
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The first step of this idea is to create a huge database of people's faces, and then have a computer sort through them and determine the "average" among all of these faces. It would be interesting to see what the statistical average would be for all human beings, or people from specific countries (USA, Australia, etc.)

After it does that, it compares your face to the average, and determines in what way your face differs from that. It would then double the differences (or even triple them) to create a version of yourself that is "more you than you" so to speak. You could get a sense of how other people see you, as well.

VeXaR, Jun 22 2001

(?) First step: Baked. http://www.hc.t.u-t...ikken/heikin-e.html
For Japan, and the world [PotatoStew, Jun 22 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

(?) You can contribute your face to an average here http://www.octapod....weller/averageface/
[PotatoStew, Jun 22 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Or do it yourself http://spotit.itc.it/
Face compositing software [PotatoStew, Jun 22 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

(?) How is it done? http://www.psych.ul...r99/13/average.html
Gives info on age progression as well. [PotatoStew, Jun 22 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

(?) Human Face Project http://www.health.a....au/anat/carl_2.htm
more... [PotatoStew, Jun 22 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Wikipedia: Eigenface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface
Average pixel value of lots of faces. [jutta, Feb 07 2007]

archive.org version of one of PotatoStew's links. http://web.archive.....au/anat/carl_2.htm
Most of the images are broken, but with the ones that aren't, you can see a little bit what direction this research went into. [jutta, Feb 07 2007]





       All the links are just averages. It could be quite fun having software or a website that can create a caracature of you as VeXaR suggests. Might need some input as to interests, temperament, etc - the stuff a cricature artist uses in their work.
jetckalz, Jun 22 2001
  

       Excellent! Love it!
MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 07 2007
  

       2011 cartoon me is common on the web
j paul, May 30 2011
  

       This is brilliant, you could have those character portraits they do at amusement parks done not only automatically, you could manipulate the size of the facial features so it would be a photo.
doctorremulac3, Dec 31 2025
  

       I tried this with GPT, and it worked, I suppose, but was strangely unsatisfying.
bhumphrys, Jan 03 2026
  

       Yup, me too, only with Grok. Like lots of AI stuff it’s like a card trick, you say “Ah cute.” and move on. Not exactly Earth shattering.
doctorremulac3, Jan 03 2026
  
         


 

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