Diary of a Restless Mind: Nick Said : Me and the Mask

Preface:-

Dear Diary,

From now on a second voice is going to draw mind-curved lines into your pages.

Nick's voice...

Let's have a listen...

Me and the Mask

Two days ago while I was browsing here and there for ways to earn some cash through the internet, suddenly stumbled upon FaceGen Modeller from Singular Inversions. I recommend you to download the free version and maybe take a look at it for a minute or two. It is definitely not special. It’s just a simple tool that makes 3dimensional human faces. Quite racist if you ask me since humans are categorized by their skin color and ethnicity, others might find this categorization interesting :P

The free version of the program was abandoned somewhere on my desktop, lost behind useless pdfs, jpgs and unfinished projects. Today I remembered it again and installed it. After I played for about 10 minutes I got bored and maybe frustrated a bit, since things are not as easy as the tutorial and all these videos on youtube suggest. I only suggest the Imagefit feature, it is pretty cool. I then started looking for information about human faces in general and I stumbled upon the mathematical constant Φ. This number is used by many arts and sciences in a human need for beauty and pleasure. Architecture, music, painting and many, many other.

Some wannabe (?) scientists have moved the study of this constant further. They created a face mask based on this magic number. You can find the mask below.

I wanted to wear this mask so I decided to do this digitally.

Things went pretty bad from that moment on. I was always suspicious about my looks and the way they influenced my love life. To be honest, the opposite sex never gave a second look to me. Since now I used to believe this was due my intellectual poverty, my empty wallet or maybe because I was a huge Heavy Metal fan. A punch hit my stomach. All these now look like advantages considering the relationship I developed with The Mask.

An even stronger punch hit my stomach (and possibly made me cry a bit) when I used the mask on my ex’s face. There was an almost perfect fit. Reasons why she dumped me finally got in order.

Finally I decided to ‘change’ my photos and maybe upload them to a dating site. What do you think?

P.S. FaceGen in quite fun