Thursday, October 26, 2006

Celebrity "Look-Alike"

I've seen a few of these now and I can't help but be very critical of it. I think a more accurate description of this is that it finds similar expressions you have with celebrities. I figure this because every picture I had tried is of me, but I get different celebrities every time. So when it said I looked Sydney Poitier and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, that was the last straw. So I'll debut the one that vents my frustration.



Looking at all my results (the complete list is not shown here), I would say I have the closest resemblance to people who have been dead for a 100 years. I must have got like 5 or 6 of those. After that, the best I can do is a 64% resemblance to people I've never heard of. The term "celebrity" is used very loosely here, I think. Alot of people think I look like Jim Carrey, mainly cuz all us tall, lanky, white guys look alike. Well, he only came up as a match with me once, and I couldn't repeat it, even with the same picture.

I tried one more experiment and that was to use a celebrity's picture and see if it could match it to the same celebrity. The subject of my test was Harrison Ford. He got a 90% match to himself. I guess this thing isn't a total waste.