…who’s the fairest of them all.
Via 3 Minds I came across the myHeritage.com face recognition celebrity database which claims to be able to analyze you face and show you which celebrities you most closely resemble.
Apparently I could make a living as a geek impersonator as the software determined that this picture of me and my wife revealed that I have a passing resemblance to Richard Stallman, Kevin Mitnick and Luke Sk… error, Mark Hamill. It also claimed I had somewhat of a resemblance to Jodie Foster and Liv Tyler. Which I suppose by way of proxy, The GNUster does not look like the LOTR cast member I would have suggested.
Needless to say, when the software didn’t immediately place my mug next to that of some Hollywood stud, I had questions about how well it actually worked. However, I didn’t want to dismiss it outright, so I scanned to Internet for some pictures of this guy!
While the first picture was recognized as having a 65% likeness to David Beckham, it did say it had a 64% likeness to Tom Cruise. The second photo however returned a dominating 86% likeness to himself. So maybe there is something to this, but I decided in the interest of science to press on further with who else!
Now this time the software had a little more trouble. While it recognized the first photo with a striking 97%, it did it by displaying the exact same photo. Displaying two identical photos side by side and saying they only have a 97% likeness is a bit strange until you consider that the photo at the right could not even return a single match, even when I manually cropped Katie’s face for the software. Alas, things were not looking good for myHeritage.
But maybe I could take things one step further. I discovered a composite photograph done by the master artists over at “Late Night With Conan O’Brian” reveling what the baby of Tom and Katie will look like. Surely software on a genealogy website should be able to determine the parents of this darling little… it.
At first I thought it was another failure when the software returned the names Condoleezza Rice ( 60% ), Jacques Chirac ( 57% ), and Neil Armstrong ( 47% ), but then it hit me! Knowing that the U.S. government is really just a front for Hollywood, it makes sense that these political leaders would come up for a child who is no doubt being breed to become the leader Surpreme Overlord of the world. Think about it, isn’t that what the message behind “War of the Worlds” is… not even a global invasion can stop this child from it’s destiny.
Personally I welcome our Hollywood overlords.