Meet Miss Average from around the world as computer works out the most common face in each country.

Fotógrafo retrató la cara que tendrá el Perú en el futuro

Según indicó el sudafricano Mike Mike, del proyecto Face of Tomorrow, el rostro del peruano fue posible luego de fotografiar a cien personas

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El del medio sería el rostro de la peruana del futuro.(dailymail.co.uk)

Gracias al proyecto fotográfico Face of Tomorrow (La cara del mañana) el mundo puede ver cómo serán los rostros del futuro de distintas partes del mundo. Esto porque el fotógrafo sudafricano Mike Mike se tomó el trabajo de visitar distintas ciudades del mundo (incluida Lima) para tomar fotos a 100 personas y luego unirlas a través de un programa. El resultado es un mosaico con el aspecto medio de las caras de los ciudadanos, lo cual refleja el rostro potencial de cada lugar.

“En cada ciudad hago cien fotos de personas situadas en un lugar concreto. Después las divido entre hombres y mujeres y de estas fotos obtengo la cara por fotomontaje. No estoy interesado en saber si una persona nació en aquel lugar, si es ciudadana o simplemente un turista. Todo el mundo que está en ese lugar representa la futura cara potencial de ese lugar”, señaló Mike.

Según publicó el portal web del diario británico “Daily Mail”, Mike se ha paseado desde Hong Kong hasta Lima y ha recorrido Inglaterra, Irlanda, Gales, Alemania, Italia y Francia en Europa. En África recorrió Sudáfrica, África Occidental y África Central. También se han obtenido los rostros del futuro de China, Birmania, Tailandia, Lituania, Japón, Polonia, Etiopía, Irán, India y Afganistán.

En Latinoamérica se han obtenido los rostros de México, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brasil, Ecuador y el Perú.

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Meet Miss Average from around the world as computer works out the most common face in each country

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 4:26 PM on 10th February 2011

Describing someone as average-looking is rarely seen as a compliment.

But most of us would be quite happy to look like a computer-generated depiction of the 'average' English woman,  Welsh woman, or even the average Burmese.

More than 100 women of 41 different nationalities and ethnicities were photographed in cities all over the world in an effort to find common regional features.

English

Welsh

Irish

The photos were carefully laid over each-other using a computer program to create an individual image for each area - and the biggest surprise is that the 'common' faces are all quite beautiful.

There are, of course, regional differences in face shapes, colours and features.

Peruvians and Iranians have bigger mouths, Ethiopians and Samoans have curlier hair, and fringes seem to be big in Latvia and Poland.

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It does make sense that the common women are pretty, both in evolutionary terms, and because averages rule out blemishes.

But most of the photos depict a woman who seems to be in her early twenties - which definitely is not the average age of any nationality.

West African

South African

Central African

The study also throws up other results that suggest that maybe the samples weren't quite as wide-ranging as they could have been.

The average South African, for example, definitely shouldn't be pale-skinned - only 9.2 per cent of the population define themselves as white.

Some anomalies can be explained by how the pictures were compiled. The prevalence of mousy hair is a result of blondeness being easily 'diluted'.

Chinese

Burmese

Thai

Mexican

Peruvian

Puerto Rican

South African Photographer Mike Mike - who inspired the images with a web project called The Face of Tomorrow compiling the faces of various cities - explains: 'Blonde hair gets lost pretty quickly when you start averaging.

'You'd need a population 75 per cent blonde to get it visibly remaining. You'd probably have to go to Iceland for that result.'

Mike, who lives in Istanbul,  travels the world taking photos of  the first 100 people he can persuade to pose in each place - noting their nationality every time.

Latvian / Lithuanian

Japanese

Polish

Afghan

African American

Indian

The 46-year-old got the idea for his project when he was studying at London's Goldsmiths College.

He said: 'Sitting on the underground train, I was intrigued by the sheer diversity of the place – Somalis, Indians, Americans, Zimbabweans, Scandinavians and a hundred other nationalities vying for their place in the metropolis.

'I thought: “What is this place, what is a Londoner?”

'I thought if one could merge all the people in a place like London one would be looking at the future of that place – one would have some notion of what a Londoner is or will become.'

German

French

Italian

Iranian

Samoan

Ethiopian

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