iPhone App to Judge Your Attractiveness

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Why have another person judge your looks when an iPhone program can do this difficult job with some complicated mathematical formula? Nashy’s “Fit or Fugly” app uses the Fibonacci Golden Ratio principle to determine if someone is attractive or not. This scientific calculation is based on symmetries via key anchor points on a human face.

To use this app, simply use a picture on your iPhone’s photo album. Pick a gender. Adjust the picture to fit the face template. You can zoom in, out, rotate left or right to try to make the face template match with the face of the person in the picture. Next, you need to move the anchor points of eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and chin to the exact spot. These anchor points will determine how well the face matchs the Fibonacci’s Golden Ratio. Thus it is important to get them right. After the anchor points are set, the iPhone app will tell you if it thinks you are “Fit” or “Fugly.”

Your result may surprise you. But if you get a “Fugly” result, don’t panic, make sure that your face is symmetrical in the picture. And make sure the anchor points are set exactly where they are supposed to be.

Fit or Fugly needs some improvements in facial recognition. Most of the time the app does not automatically set the anchor points of facial features correctly. It requires the users to set them right correctly. When manipulating those anchor points, these points are difficult to set with the current control scheme. Perhaps the developer should make the anchor points higher so that users can set them at exactly where they are supposed to be.

Despite some difficulties with anchor point controls, the Fit or Fugly app is really fun to try on your friends. It is a great way to tell your friend that they are ugly… or not.

This is a post on Fit or Fugly by the App Machine