which celebrity are you?

April 16, 2004 5:02 PM

Analogia - You upload your face and complex recognition software returns three celebrities you most resemble. Which are you? The software is surprisingly accurate! (Marginally NSFW: thumb nailed obscenity)
posted by Tryptophan-5ht (39 comments total)

Shockingly accurate, even.

I just laughed my gaping monstrous asshole off. Oh man.
posted by cortex at 5:07 PM on April 16, 2004

Lafffffff, definitely an Affleck impersonator.
posted by zekinskia at 5:08 PM on April 16, 2004

uh... complex joke trypty, but believe it or not there are still folks that have chosen not to gaze upon goatse man. A more comprehensive warning might have been appropriate (although joke-spoiling).

On preview, something like cortex's note. Anyhoo.
posted by mwhybark at 5:09 PM on April 16, 2004

<paranoid>
Err, ok. So, basically, you update their database along with an
IP address, from which they can obtain many many personal information; depending on which machne your browse from...

NSFYP (Not Safe For Your Privacy)
</paranoid>
posted by NewBornHippy at 5:20 PM on April 16, 2004

Goatse is never "marginally" NSFW, even thumbnailed.

Not cool at all.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:26 PM on April 16, 2004

MeTa, BTW.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:28 PM on April 16, 2004

*cries*
posted by matteo at 5:28 PM on April 16, 2004

Wonderful. You've taken a website that thinks I look like either Scott Baio or Jackie Chan and turned it into something horrible,
posted by farmerchris at 5:30 PM on April 16, 2004

hah! hilarious. this is the funniest FPP in a while.

[this is good]
posted by suprfli at 5:40 PM on April 16, 2004

AnalogiaFilter for that marginal NSFW link.
posted by Gyan at 6:13 PM on April 16, 2004

I can't get it to work on a Mac.
posted by inksyndicate at 6:18 PM on April 16, 2004

I would say that Goatsex thumbnails are significantly NSFW
posted by inksyndicate at 6:19 PM on April 16, 2004

As to the post itself, the results I got were:

Denzel Washington
Willem Dafoe
Val Kilmer

so I think perhaps the site needs a little more work in its algorithms.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:24 PM on April 16, 2004

Who knew the Fonz looked like Dolph Lundgren?
posted by fatbobsmith at 6:29 PM on April 16, 2004

It says I look Scott Baio, Jacki Chan and Alec Baldwin.

And I had to fire up virtual PC to get it to work since it doesn't seem to like Macs at all.
posted by birdherder at 6:36 PM on April 16, 2004

it doesn't work for me either.
posted by amberglow at 6:37 PM on April 16, 2004

I was on a roll with richard gere , then i gambled and got freddie mercury.

i will never use the internet again.
posted by sgt.serenity at 6:44 PM on April 16, 2004

Perfectly accurate.
posted by condour75 at 6:44 PM on April 16, 2004

Deadly accurate.
posted by sgt.serenity at 6:48 PM on April 16, 2004

I have this friend who's always telling me I look like Ralph Fiennes. So I gave this thing a try - and it agrees with him!
posted by dnash at 6:50 PM on April 16, 2004

Me: David Beckham, Antonio Banderas, George Clooney.
This Guy: Al Pacino, Takeshi Kaneshiro, George Clooney.
posted by TimeFactor at 6:59 PM on April 16, 2004

No way.

OK, Dolph Lundgren I recognize, but who the hell are these other two prettyboys?
posted by alumshubby at 7:10 PM on April 16, 2004

One wishes they would just say up front that it doesn't work with Macs -- or that they would spell the word "right" correctly in their dialogue boxes.
posted by digaman at 7:24 PM on April 16, 2004

Mine was pretty far off, seeing as I'm almost a dead ringer for Anthony Edwards.
posted by sciurus at 7:32 PM on April 16, 2004

you really do, sciurus.

Since it won't work on my mac, I'll just pretend 3 devastatingly handsome men popped up for mine.
posted by amberglow at 7:34 PM on April 16, 2004

Hmm, doesn't work for me at all, in Mozilla or Safari.
posted by Mars Saxman at 7:38 PM on April 16, 2004

It worked for me on Mac OS X running the latest Opera 7 preview. I had to right click the unloaded image and select "open image" twice but it finally fully loaded my face.

It said I looked like: Scott Baio, Gabriel Batistuta, and Rutget Hauer.
posted by gyc at 7:51 PM on April 16, 2004

Me neither. Tried Safari, tried Mac IE 5.something.
posted by emelenjr at 7:55 PM on April 16, 2004

I look like either John Goodman or Val Kilmer. Meta indeed.
posted by graventy at 8:54 PM on April 16, 2004

Dennis Bergkamp (whoever that is), Sean Connery, Michael J. Fox. Of course I also put in a second photo and...

http://www.gabitus.com/cgi-bin/a_cgi/view-1082173943593

Yes, that is correct. Both me AND my cat look like Sean Connery. The cat also looks like Charles Bronson.

I should not have done this...

or this...

OR this.
posted by bargle at 9:03 PM on April 16, 2004

Ralph Fiennes? Sure i can live with that.
Christopher Reeve??? FUCK YOU, WEBSITE.

I don't know about this thing, I submittd pictures of two friends of mine who couldn't look more different, one asian, tiny features, flat-ish face and the other eastern european, big nose and features, and it said they both look like someone named Chi Hsu .
posted by Space Coyote at 10:06 PM on April 16, 2004

The program didn't think that Audrey Hepburn looked like Audrey Hepburn. Hmmm....
posted by gyc at 12:12 AM on April 17, 2004

and oldie but goodie from the wonder chicken:


posted by quonsar at 4:03 PM on April 17, 2004

Space Coyote: If it's like most face recognition, it's appraising the distances between the features, not anything like the contours. And face-wise, in the more subtle ways Eastern Europeans are far closer to Asians than, say, the French ;)
posted by abcde at 6:08 PM on April 17, 2004

appears to be offline...
posted by moonbird at 4:33 AM on April 18, 2004

What's going on? Although the Analogia page is Google cached, I get "site not found" when trying it live, and the root page for gabitus.com leads to the Chearsley Times, a UK village website.
posted by raygirvan at 4:43 AM on April 18, 2004

Enrique Iglessias, Arnold Shwartzenegger, and Takeshi Kaneshiro.
Yea, ok.
posted by Witty at 1:52 PM on April 18, 2004

Clint Eastwood, Ralph Fiennes, Enrique Iglesias, Sean Connery, Dennis Bergkamp and John Lithgow??? (using different but similar photos.) People usually tell me I look like John Malkovich or Greg Rusedski...
posted by cbrody at 6:04 PM on April 18, 2004

Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, and Shahrukh Khan. I do get Jim Carrey pretty frequently. Maybe Kahn's my cousin.
posted by quasistoic at 7:04 PM on April 18, 2004