Rats Perception Elvis

January 9, 2005 7:26 PM

If rats can distinguish between Japanese and Dutch, why would Elvis have looked like this at age 70?
posted by mcgraw (20 comments total)

Which is faster to California or by bus?
posted by waldo at 7:38 PM on January 9, 2005

Just go up to the light and turn green, waldo.
posted by LeLiLo at 7:44 PM on January 9, 2005

Every once in awhile, I desire a banana split, but I never get one.
posted by interrobang at 7:54 PM on January 9, 2005

Time flies like... Oh, never mind.
posted by 327.ca at 8:13 PM on January 9, 2005

Whatever, guys, with the surrealist snarks. Yes, the post's text was a bit, uhm, odd, but that aging program is effin' cool.
(It seemed to do a better job with a picture that I'd never rotated - you can see more artifacts in a sideways picture, but the effect is stronger.)
posted by notsnot at 8:19 PM on January 9, 2005

What.
posted by keswick at 8:20 PM on January 9, 2005

The real question is,

Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
posted by Fourmyle at 8:26 PM on January 9, 2005

Dream world, mcgraw. Dream world.
posted by turaho at 8:33 PM on January 9, 2005

I just ran a pic of myself through that software.

I won't be able to go to sleep now.
posted by sourwookie at 8:36 PM on January 9, 2005

Me, too, sourwookie . . . used a picture of my son, and each transformation was viscerally terrifying (variations on horrid porcelain dolls with sharp teeth and huge eyes and exaggerated features) yet I couldn't stop trying different ones.

As far as I can tell, the Elvis aging looks very little like him at all, and it looks like (if what is offered on their website is any indication) this is software of the morph two images type that was readily available and played out . . . 8+ years ago?
posted by littlegreenlights at 9:04 PM on January 9, 2005

The square root of key-lime pie.
posted by The God Complex at 9:35 PM on January 9, 2005

what sourwookie said. I'm now officially creeped out of my fucking mind. Yikes!!
posted by mr.marx at 9:46 PM on January 9, 2005

That must be the WORST age projection ever done.
We've all seen people get old, they look basically the same only OLD. That thing looks NOTHING like Elvis.
posted by HTuttle at 9:52 PM on January 9, 2005

What I find most disturbing is this picture of Michael Jackson if he had never had plastic surgery.
I'm not sure if this is the same one I saw originally, but supposedly they used a young picture and then did the forensic aging program on it.
posted by daHIFI at 10:05 PM on January 9, 2005

I'm having great fun transforming images of myself and others. Cheers for the link.
posted by Orange Goblin at 5:27 AM on January 10, 2005

No way would Elvis have looked that good at 70...the poor guy looked much worse than that when he finally shuffled off this mortal coil.
posted by Stonewall Jackson at 6:04 AM on January 10, 2005

So if Elvis has lived to age 70, he would have become Forrest Tucker?!
posted by Pliskie at 7:13 AM on January 10, 2005

Looks to me like someone's been reading the Metro newspaper in London (rats article is online - the Elvis page doesn't seem to have made it onto the web yet). Only reason I can see for the odd juxtaposition (mcgraw from London?)
posted by daveg at 7:27 AM on January 10, 2005

Elvis looks like The Duke???
posted by Four Flavors at 9:37 AM on January 10, 2005

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posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 5:18 PM on January 12, 2005