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Marquardt Beauty Mask

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Many have written about the Marquardt Beauty Mask, applied it and tried to evaluate its validity. Unfortunately, we find that many who do so do not really understand the mask or how to use it. As one example, a lot of good effort went into creating an online version of the mask at the Interactive Mathematics page on “The Math Behind the Beauty.” It allows you to select a mask and then overlay it to photos of a number of famous people or upload your own photo.

Marquardt Mask App
Mask

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Marquardt Beauty Mask
Marquardt Beauty Mask

We uploaded the Marquardt Beauty Mask to the Interactive Mathematics site and this is what we found. When the Marquardt mask (black lines) is aligned vertically to match the pupils of the eyes, the Interactive Math mask (magenta lines) is too long. When the Marquardt mask is aligned horizontally to match the line of the pupils and the center line of the mouth, the Interactive Math mask is too narrow. As a result, none of the photos evaluated on the Interactive Math site will provide an accurate analysis of beauty as defined by the Marquardt mask.

Transparent Marquardt Beauty Mask
Marquardt Beauty Mask
  1. See different versions of yourself using beauty proportion masks. What is the Marquardt Mask? Developed by Dr Stephen Marquardt in 1998, this geometric mask uses the golden ratio to define ideal facial proportions. Masks are divided by race with Caucasian, Asian and African variants and gender with male and female.
  2. Whereas it is clear that Marquardt’s Phi mask, derived from the golden ratio or divine proportion, is inconsistent with the optimal esthetic preferences of most people on multiple counts, it is necessary to also address issues as in the image below. Marquardt’s mask.

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Marquardt Beauty Mask Test

In another instance, a young adult male created a YouTube video showing the transformation of his face to conform to that of the Marquardt Beauty Mask. The morph animation was executed very nicely, but he morphed his face to conform to the female mask rather than the male mask. This produced a rather unnatural appearance.

Marquardt beauty mask

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Marquardt Beauty Mask

We uploaded the Marquardt Beauty Mask to the Interactive Mathematics site and this is what we found. When the Marquardt mask (black lines) is aligned vertically to match the pupils of the eyes, the Interactive Math mask (magenta lines) is too long. When the Marquardt mask is aligned horizontally to match the line of the pupils and the center line of the mouth, the Interactive Math mask is too narrow. As a result, none of the photos evaluated on the Interactive Math site will provide an accurate analysis of beauty as defined by the Marquardt mask.

Transparent Marquardt Beauty Mask
  1. See different versions of yourself using beauty proportion masks. What is the Marquardt Mask? Developed by Dr Stephen Marquardt in 1998, this geometric mask uses the golden ratio to define ideal facial proportions. Masks are divided by race with Caucasian, Asian and African variants and gender with male and female.
  2. Whereas it is clear that Marquardt’s Phi mask, derived from the golden ratio or divine proportion, is inconsistent with the optimal esthetic preferences of most people on multiple counts, it is necessary to also address issues as in the image below. Marquardt’s mask.

Click on the images for higher resolution version.

Marquardt Beauty Mask Test

In another instance, a young adult male created a YouTube video showing the transformation of his face to conform to that of the Marquardt Beauty Mask. The morph animation was executed very nicely, but he morphed his face to conform to the female mask rather than the male mask. This produced a rather unnatural appearance.

Marquardt Beauty Mask Photoshop

We sincerely appreciate attention that the Marquardt Beauty Mask has received in both popular and academic settings, but caution you to not believe everything that others have to say about it or to go by the examples they provide. Instructions on the proper use of the Beauty Mask are found Repose Frontal Mask Application page.





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