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v.1.0 · ∆I/GEN dual engine · MediaPipe 478 · runs in your browser
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Front-facingeyes level, looking straight into the camera
Even lightingnatural or soft frontal light, no strong shadows
Face uncoveredno glasses, masks or hair across features
Neutral expressionrelaxed face, mouth closed
Webcamhold the device at eye level
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PHYSIOGNOMIC REPORT

"if the body is a medium, the face is the message"
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SØURCƏS

Physiognomy is a pseudoscience: the claim that character can be read from the shape of a face. This tool stages its instruments so they can be seen working. Every index is a proxy computed from 478 landmarks (the facial angle uses the depth MediaPipe estimates); it imitates the historical measurement, it does not reproduce it.

PRIVACY

Your images never leave your device. Face detection (MediaPipe) runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded or stored by this site. If the AI verdict is active, only the numerical measurements — never the image — are sent through this site’s server to Anthropic’s Claude API to write the text. When the page opens, the face model, its code and the fonts are downloaded from Google and jsDelivr.

THE ARCHIVE

  • Giambattista della Porta, De humana physiognomonia (1586) — human faces read through animal likeness.
  • Johann Caspar Lavater, Physiognomische Fragmente (1775–78); quoted from The Pocket Lavater (New York, 1817), Project Gutenberg.
  • Petrus Camper, lectures on the facial angle (1770), published 1791 — overview. Camper tied facial differences to environment; the racial ladder built on his angles came later, from others.
  • Charles Bell, Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting (1806).
  • Anders Retzius (1840s) and Paul Broca (Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 1859) — cephalic index and craniometry; head shape was later used by Georges Vacher de Lapouge to rank “races”.
  • Cesare Lombroso, L’uomo delinquente (1876); Introduction to Gina Lombroso-Ferrero, Criminal Man (1911), Project Gutenberg.
  • Francis Galton, “Composite Portraits”, Journal of the Anthropological Institute (1879) — galton.org.

THE ARCHIVE, NOW

  • Allan Sekula, “The Body and the Archive”, October 39 (1986).
  • Xiaolin Wu & Xi Zhang, “Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images”, arXiv:1611.04135 (2016).
  • Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Margaret Mitchell, Alexander Todorov, “Physiognomy’s New Clothes” (2017).
  • HireVue stopped using facial expressions in its job-interview scoring after public criticism — Fortune, 2021.
  • Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI (Yale University Press, 2021).