Amazing Online Program Allows You To Meld & Mold Your Face In The Shape Of Celebrities
Posted January 8, 2007 12:00 pm.
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What do you look like?
Now who would you want to look like if you could?
An online program may just be able to let you see your fantasy come true.
A new program called ModiFace allows Internet users to upload a picture of themselves, match it with their favourite star like Scarlett Johannson or Paris Hilton, and mash them together to see what they’d look like if they had plastic surgery to make their dreams – or depending on the outcome, their nightmares – come true.
The program is the brainchild of some talented researchers at the University of Toronto. It was designed to help plastic surgeons show you what the outcome of their operations may look like. But developers wanted to keep improving it and decided to open it up for public input. That means you can play with it even if you don’t have code to suggest.
“You can choose which features from which face you like,” explains Prof. Parham Aarabi.
So how does it work? When you go to the site, you’ll be asked to either upload a picture of yourself or a loved one or pick a celebrity.
(We chose Beyonce Knowles and Paris Hilton for no particularly good reason.)
You’ll then be asked to highlight an area of the face and modify features you choose, like which hair style you like best., their mouth, their face, or their nose. You can also choose to have them/you undergo a facelift.
Click on Modify and the program works its magic in seconds, showing you what the melding of both pictures looks like (top left).
Want to try it yourself with your own mug or that of a relative (or even an enemy?) Just click here.
But you may not want to show our results to anyone who’s just awkened from a bad dream. They’ve probably already suffered enough.
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