difference.

Ever notice how eye glasses fit? One side sits a tad higher than the other. That's because your ears are not level with each other.
This extends to the whole body. One hand is larger (the dominant one), one leg is a tad longer, one foot is a tad bigger.

Check it out. When buying shoes, you always need to fit the dominant one, or have shoes that are too tight.

...split a paper vertically on your own face, and see for yourself...you'll get some stunning resemblances to family members you never suspected before...

and you will also that people's faces are asymmetrical

No way she could describe that much nuance.

Fucking Tom Brady.

And they are beating Trump at it.

They already know who this is and they are just playing the media with a tantalizing preamble to a big reveal. MSNBC has been reporting this all day, and the other major non-fox networks probably have been doing it also.

The picture is much more detailed than a typical composite drawing. But it would be easy if they think they have the guy and gave the artist a real picture of him.

Great theater either way.

Bravo. Well played Sir and Lady. Well played.

D.B Cooper.

I can see that art work being on the market in the future for big $.

What do you do in your spare time Hexola? Spot crisis actors for Alex Jones?

We even did an experiment on this with magazines when I was in elementary school.

Here are a couple articles with examples.

https://petapixel.com/2012/10/02/a-portrait-project-showing-subjects-with-two-perfectly-symmetrical-faces/



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2564557/Which-YOUR-best-Photo-manipulation-shows-left-right-faces-look-total-symmetry-surprising-results.html

Yikes!

mirror image of each side.

Its almost like she's 2 completely different people!

Oooo-eeeee-oooo 😨🤤

It isn't just their faces either, look at a person's breasts. The science museum even has a display that gets a picture of each side of your face and replicates it symmetrically. It is really interesting to see how unsymmetrical we are.

At least that's what my art teacher told us in high school. "All faces are asymmetrical, except Elvis."

He is asymmetrical. His nostrils, eyelids, lips and chin all are a little different (even at different ages). Your teacher must have had an Elvis complex or something.

I was being funny but I guess it didn't translate. My teacher was being funny then too. I guess I had to be there, which I was.

Is nothing sacred?

they're just trying to get the key components in place to help people visualize the description.

arguably, the specifically do *not* want it to look overly realistic, because the real person they're trying to find falls within a range based on the description, and they don't necessarily want people looking for them to have an overly specific image in mind.


the sketch works in the sense that you now know what to look for. you don't really need for the sketch to fix the slant in the chin or whatever. you're not going to let the perp slip away because he doesn't have a slanted chin.

I can't do it on this computer.

Seems like an odd thing to do with something that he presumably wants distributed as widely as possible.

likely because he doesn't want others using the sketch for their own commercial purposes.

The artist probably assigned her copyright in exchange for some good amount of money.

but the copyright is a legal statement of ownership that would prevent someone else from using it for their own profit. If a publisher wanted to include the drawing in an article, at the very least they would need to obtain permission and include an source attribution, and possibly pay a licensing fee. It's no different than using photos from places like Stock Photo.

profit off the creative work. A magazine or newspaper buys the photos and stories they publish, then consumers purchase the issue to see that content.

That's not to say that the copyright owner can't partially release his rights for a one time use, giving up his payment, but keeping the attribution, to score national attention in a prestigious publication.

breaks up the face into separate sections to get a better likeness. Pretend there is an imaginary vertical line down the center of this face, dividing the right and left sides, and you can see how the two sides are somewhat different. There would also be several more horizontal divisions as well. Examined closely, it would look like nothing quite matches and all the facial features are subtly mismatched, but viewed as a whole, drawings rendered this way are actually very good likenesses.

Your explanation of the technique used makes a lot of sense.

I used a simple rectangle select tool...

n/t

I almost comical how screwy it looks!!!

Cracked me up - that's for sure.

And does the person in the sketch really look to be "early 40s"?

...and hold a little mirror down the center, first one side, then the other. You look like two different people yourself.

Her face is very asymmetrical. She would definitely look like three people.

we are not Asymmetrical... None of us are.