Comments on: The Science of Beauty – How important is symmetry?

By: : )

: ) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:49:59 +0000

It’s much less about symmetary and much more about certain ratios and facial proportions.

I think the proof that it’s not about symmetary is in the fact that when you take a picture half of someone’s face and reflect it so you have two symmetrical halves, it just looks strange and unnatural.
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By: OoDeLally

OoDeLally — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:24:59 +0000

I heard about this too. But it is interesting how, if you took a picture of a person and copied one half of their face, flipped it and put it on the other side so it is perfectly symmetrical, the person looks alien like. A video I saw long ago did this with "beautiful" celebrities and it looked realistic but they ended up just looking creepy. One of women looked pretty much the same because her face was pretty symmetrical but its interesting to think about. Even with art. Art that is perfectly symmetrical is considered boring and static.
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By: oneblondepilgrim

oneblondepilgrim — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:06:59 +0000

It is not that people that are asymmetrical are not beautiful, its just that symmetry pleases the eye, we find symmetrical more pleasing. In nature, the Devine Proportion rule comes in to play. If you are interested, do a google on this subject. The number 1.618 repeats itself over and over again in Nature. Check out this link..it’s super interesting. http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/showthread/t-262491.html Scroll down until you come to the category Music and start reading from there.. next comes the human body etc.. It explains why symmetry is pleasing to the eye.
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By: honeybabe5017

honeybabe5017 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:55:59 +0000

symmetry is an aesthetic which makes people to be considered beautiful and attractive to the eye. i think you could go as far as saying unattractive people are not symmetrical because if they were symmetrical they would then be ‘attractive’.
to say beautiful or aesthetically pleasing? …beauty is in the eye of the beholder
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By: Lexy Lou Who

Lexy Lou Who — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:06:59 +0000

to be corny, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
i don’t think we should go by what the views of others are..
we are not cattle to a herd..
beauty is whatever you believe it to be..
symmetry doesn’t matter a DAMN to me.

everyone is beautiful in their own, special way. xo
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