?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Facial+beauty+and+fractal+geometry&rft.creator=Schmidhuber%2C+Juergen&rft.subject=Behavioral+Analysis&rft.subject=Behavioral+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Animal+Cognition&rft.subject=Sociobiology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Comparative+Psychology&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Complexity+Theory&rft.subject=Machine+Vision&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Statistical+Models&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=What+is+it+that+makes+a+face+beautiful%3F+Average+faces+obtained+by+photographic+(Galton+1878)+or+digital+(Langlois+%26+Roggman+1990)+blending+are+judged+attractive+but+not+optimally+attractive+(Alley+%26+Cunningham+1991)+---+digital+exaggerations+of+deviations+from+average+face+blends+can+lead+to+higher+attractiveness+ratings+(Perrett%2C+May%2C+%26+Yoshikawa+1994).+My+novel+approach+to+face+design+does+not+involve+blending+at+all.+Instead%2C+the+image+of+a+female+face+with+high+ratings+is+composed+from+a+fractal+geometry+based+on+rotated+squares+and+powers+of+two.+The+corresponding+geometric+rules+are+more+specific+than+those+previously+used+by+artists+such+as+Leonardo+and+Duerer.+They+yield+a+short+algorithmic+description+of+all+facial+characteristics%2C+many+of+which+are+compactly+encodable+with+the+help+of+simple+feature+detectors+similar+to+those+found+in+mammalian+brains.+This+suggests+that+a+face's+beauty+correlates+with+simplicity+relative+to+the+subjective+observer's+way+of+encoding+it.&rft.date=1998-06&rft.type=Departmental+Technical+Report&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F690%2F1%2Fnewlocoface.html&rft.identifier=++Schmidhuber%2C+Juergen++(1998)+Facial+beauty+and+fractal+geometry.++%5BDepartmental+Technical+Report%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F690%2F