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Letter: Average of averages

Published 27 October 2004

From Patrick MacPhail

I was fascinated by the beauty of Miss Average Face (2 October, cover). You can enhance her beauty by viewing her stereoscopically together with her brother, Mr Average Face, on the front of the “Secrets of the face” supplement.

Remove the pull-out supplement and place the two pictures side by side in a good light (sunlight works best, if you can find any). Then “cross” your eyes and merge the two pictures in the middle. The resulting face has an even more ethereal quality, now in three dimensions.

The startling thing is that the 3D face is undoubtedly feminine. Is there a message here?

Bryanston, South Africa

Issue no. 2471 published 30 October 2004

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