November 7, 2000

4:16 AM

With Face Generator,you too can spend the rest of the day trying to generate real-like faces of the ideal girlfriend (or boyfriend) with really big noses and strange goofy eyes. A must-visit for all budding procrastinators out there.
posted by aki (6 comments total)

Works only with IE 4 or higher. And I can't get rid of the acne, no matter what acne setting I use! Wow, just like real life!
posted by Taken Outtacontext at 6:23 AM on November 7, 2000

Ugh, not a single attractive part among them. These are the most homely people I have ever seen.

I did have fun though!
posted by Starchile at 9:59 AM on November 7, 2000

It's a little ... racially limited. (Only Danes or Finns or whatever they were ... )
posted by dhartung at 10:26 AM on November 7, 2000

A little gender biased too. And it's easy to make ugly people but takes a lot of effort to make them attractive. The technology is potentially very promising, but the police have been using something more dynamically versatile than this software for decades: it's called a sketch artist. =) A couple more years though and we won't need artists anymore, eh? That's rather disturbing..
posted by ZachsMind at 10:33 AM on November 7, 2000

it's easy to make ugly people but takes a lot of effort to make them attractive

Quite like real life, I find. :)

posted by daveadams at 12:44 PM on November 7, 2000

Speaking of manipulating faces, try out Presidential Warp after you have been to the polls. (My first post. I've been reading MetaFilter for a few weeks now. Happy to be aboard.)
posted by abosio at 1:04 PM on November 7, 2000