Dr. DiMaggio

I keep changing the morphs when I get new photos to add to them, so thought it better to just stop with the morph posts and put them all on a page. So this is all my previous posts merged into one page.

 

Background

Recently I was looking into square jaws (for the post "Are square jaws a masculine trait? - Part 2") and found that studies that research facial features use algorithms to make faces more masculine or feminine. Of course, I wanted to learn more about these algorithms so I could see how jaw width fits into it all (i.e., what kind of data exists on jaw width).

In doing this I found morphing software, which was the beginning of the end. So many hours gone, gone, gone... and here are the results. It may not look like much time went into making this, but trust me. This was a major time waster.

 

How the Photos Differ

So here we have it... a composite "photo" of 19 FFS patients, all worked on by the same doctor, averaged together.

Obvious things about the "after" photo:

• Less brow bossing
• More eyelid showing
• Higher eyebrows
• Straighter, slightly concave nasal profile (less convex)
• More upturned nose
• Smaller nose (from front to back)
• Lower, less M-shaped hairline

Less obvious things about the "after" photo:

• The virtual patient has a mild black eye due to so many of the photos being taken very soon after surgery. I did not include photos in which the patients were hugely swollen, but I can't say that they were fully healed either.
• Dark line at the hairline from stitches
• Scar in front of the ear from face lifts
• Less sideburns from the face lifts (The side burns get pulled back and chopped off so the skin that is now where the side burns were used to be closer to the cheek/jaw area.)
• Less wrinkles around the nose and corner of mouth from face lifts 
• Less double chin due to face lifts
• Thicker eyebrows (no tweezing is allowed while healing)
• Upper lip turned up a bit from lip lifts
• Jaw line is more angled up, less square 

Also, it's important to know that "averaging" many photos of people together creates one photo of a virtual, yet extremely attractive, person. No one person was anywhere NEAR as good looking as this. This isn't meant to show what someone's outcome will be, it's just an experiment. I want to see if there will be any difference between different doctors' "before" and "after" photos.

Finally, when the images are morphed they come out very soft looking, but that softness hides things we want to see, like contours. For example, in the before photo, the shiny spot caused by brow bossing and the shadow above it are more noticeable than they would have been without adding contrast.

A Topographical Photo

I also created a "topographical" photo. In it, the changes to the forehead are even more apparent because the shiny spot takes on an hourglass shape in the before photo. But in the after photo, the shape is completely different.You can just SEE it's flatter.

Imaginary FFS patient in a topographical format. Check out that forehead!