An askew lunchtime poll.

[cdave]

[Poll #1460401]

Comments

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

It's not that it freaks me out, more that it annoys me. See also Shannen Doherty's (and Paris Hilton's, to a lesser extent) misaligned eyes, and minging Kate Moss's wall-eyes.

[cdave]

An alternative title could have been: Part #137 of how cDave realises not everyone's brain works the same.

I made a throwaway comment at how there seemed to be more lopsided charaters these days, and was genuinely surprised when C said she hadn't noticed. The poll results thus far seems to be reflecting C's view.

I hadn't noticed missaligned eyes so much. My ears are slightly missaligned, which I didn't notice until I started wearing glasses 8)

Evolution

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

After reading one of your google links it reminded me of an occasion when I was at 'Confabulation' Eastercon in 1995 when, after a program item hosted by him, Bioligist, Jack Cohen just came up to me and said, "You know... you have a very symetrical face!" then just walked away before I could even respond. Well that was Jack!

Re: Evolution

[cdave]

I went to Warwick, but only ran into him a couple of times. I'm reading Wheelers at the moment.

Re: Evolution

[ex-frankwu.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a Discover magazine article about "what was beautiful." Beautiful apparently equals symmetry - but only in the neutral face. They didn't say anything about expressions.

I think the asymmetrical smile is kinda charming, perhaps a bit neotonous. I don't think that's bad.

Re: Evolution

[cdave]

I don't think it's bad, and think it works in all the above cases. It just leapt out at me, and I was surprised that others didn't notice at all until it was pointed out.

Seems to be a nifty shortcut out of the uncanny valley.