Asymmetry

At Brownies last week, we had the girls do some activities about colors, shapes, patterns, and symmetry. We talked about how the human body is symmetrical, but not perfectly so. That is, if you draw a line down the middle, you do indeed get an eye on each side, but the eyes aren't exact mirror images of each other, nor are the ears, hands, knees, etc. Anyhow, I suddenly remembered a museum exhibit or magazine article that I saw many years ago. They had taken photos of people's faces and cut the photos in half right down the middle. Then they made a mirror image of each half and put them together, so you had the right half of the face with a mirror image of the right half, and the left half of the face with a mirror image of the left half. The resulting two photos were amazingly different—from one another and from the original! Does this ring a bell with anyone? Can anyone point me to a Web site that shows this? I bet it wouldn't be hard to DIY in Photoshop, come to think of it....

Comments

[susan]

I was just thinking about that the other day. If you find it let me know.

[Mark]

I found this:

http://www.adrianbruce.com/Symmetry/split/split.htm

[Karen]

THANKS, Mark! That's exactly the sort of thing I was talking about. Very cool. I'm tempted to try one out myself, although I'm not terribly adept at Photoshop.