Nederlandse Verkiezingen 2010 / Dutch Elections 2010
In de Nederlandse verkiezingen gaat het om kopstukken van partijen ('laten we het even' niet 'over de inhoud hebben'). Maar uiteindelijk moet er een coalitie geknuffeld worden. Je krijgt meer dan waar je op stemt, zodat er een mix aan mensen en plannen ontstaat. Wat beter dan FaceBlender om u te laten kennismaken met uw toekomstige coalitiecandidaten.. een mix van kopstukken! Stem!
De Coalities
| CDA-PvdA-CU "Dat wat er zat (en viel)" |
| VVD-PVV "Vrijheid!" |
| VVD-PvdA-D66 "Paars!" |
| VVD-PvdA-D66-GL "Paars+ (een vrouw erbij)" |
| PvdA-GL-SP "Links!" |
| CDA-VVD-GL-D66 "Balkenende met wind mee." |
| CDA-VVD-PVV "In ieder geval H-aftrek." |
| GL-TROTS-PvdD "Vrouwen aan het roer." |
| VVD-PvdA-PVV-CDA-SP-D66-CU "Mannen aan het roer." |
| VVD-PvdA-PVV-CDA-SP-D66-GL-CU-PvdD-TROTS "Iedereen! aan het roer." |
Deze verkiezingsspecial is geïnspireerd door het handmatige werk van Willem Popelier, als verschenen in NRC Next op 9 juni 2010.
The Application
FaceBlender is an iPhone/iPod touch application that allows you to blend, not just two, but any number of faces together into a beautiful average. With just a few simple clicks, faces will be automatically scaled and rotated to form a perfect blend.
Use it to:
Import photos from your photo library or take new ones with your iPhone camera, use your contact list or your Facebook friends.
Discover how your average colleague, friend, ex-girlfriend or pet dog looks like.
Blend your face with an average face to see how you look like as being of the opposite sex, or how an asian version of you looks like.
Export the blends you make, so that you can e-mail them to friends or add your creations to your favorite social network profile.
Tag your photos with traits like hair color. Then, use the easy trait selective blender to make blends such as the average female blonde wearing glasses, or smiling colleagues combined with cats.
Extra:
The application comes with free sample databases containing over 100 images so that you can start playing around straight away! (All demo face images originate from stock.xchng and are copyright free with the restrictions given on the website.)
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Examples
The average of the male population of a physics group in a Dutch university. Then, the average of several cats that are included in the demo database. Last, averaging the physicists with the cats leads to another 'interesting' result.
The average of several self-portraits of the famous dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn. Then, we also add several self-portraits of Vincent van Gogh (who looks the other way). The result is as puzzling as the young woman/old hag gimmick.
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Background
Theories roughly state that people, next to remembering the different faces they see, also keep track of the average of all these faces. Every face that one sees is compared to this average. In general, the more a face resembles the average the more attractive the person will find this face. Of course, this is not a waterproof theory. A blend of 'attractive' faces will give a more attractive average than a blend of 'less attractive' faces. However, the average is usually more attractive than each of the individual faces. In the end though, the average face may be beautiful but it is also relatively boring. That is why people tend to be attracted to more 'exotic' faces. FaceBlender is not intended to help fundamental research that exists in this field, but aims to play around with the ideas. One thing is certain, an average face triggers something in our brains!
 | Gemiddelde van Olaf Janssen. Olaf Janssen en René de Waele zijn de makers van FaceBlender. |
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