What does it mean if someone has a public face?

Refers to a person with a very ordinary face and only general characteristics.

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Mike was born in Cape Town, educated in London and Los Angeles, and now lives in Istanbul and Sydney. He has always been interested in the diversity of globalization. He said: "It's very exciting to create public faces, creating new avatars through 65,438+000 prototypes. I think it is very meaningful to synthesize the faces of existing residents and create typical public faces with the characteristics of various cities. Global migration makes the world's metropolises more and more similar, and people around the world look similar. These public faces also have many similarities. " Mike, a 47-year-old photographer, spent several years shooting portraits around the world, and then used high-tech software to analyze the similarities and differences of portrait photos around the world to create a "public face" of women with local characteristics. He put a composite picture of the global women's "popular faces" on the "Tomorrow's Face" website he created. Mike said that the idea of synthesizing the "public face" of global women originated from a whim when he was at school in London. He said: "I was sitting on the subway with Somalis, Indians, Americans, Zimbabweans, Nordic people and so on. I suddenly had this idea, purely out of interest. I think, what are Londoners and new york people like? People with different looks should have similarities. So I had the idea of creating a' face of tomorrow' website. "

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Everyone can send 100 portrait photos.

The website "Face of Tomorrow" is an open website. Unable to reach all parts of the world in a short time, Mike appealed to netizens all over the world to help him complete the plan.

Anyone can send 100 portrait photos of his city to Mike, and Mike will help synthesize a "popular face" with regional characteristics through software.

So far, netizens from Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Bogota, Colombia and many other cities have sent 65,438+000 portrait photos of their places. Mike also held exhibitions in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Sao Paulo, Brazil to show the "public faces" in these concepts.

Regarding the software synthesis process, Mike said: "The whole process involves two softwares-Photoshop and Fantamorph (Fantasy Face Change Show). At first, the modification and positioning of photos were all done through Photoshop, mainly the correction of color and clarity. The actual synthesis operation is completed by Fantamorph, which is a powerful image editing software that can create all kinds of strange pictures in real time and then use Photoshop to adjust the colors. "