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December 11, 2005
Fearful symmetries
Some time ago Mom sent a photocopy with pictures of Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, and Vivien Leigh.
Famous photographs of these three had been transformed to show how famous faces are not necessarily symmetric.
Yet as you can see from the gimp'd photos on this page, only part of the asymmetries are due to the faces themselves. A complete explanation of the asymmetric faces accounts for the slight angle from which the photographer shot the view.
I've put together a (large, 1 MB) page showing pictures of the 6 of us here to explain what I mean.
Posted by Mark at December 11, 2005 10:53 AM
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