I came across a fun bit of research — from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland — into perception of faces. Thanks to GregG for pointing me that way! They have a little applet called “Face Transformer” which you can use to generate all kinds of variations on faces.

Here are a few select faces, then: two which predict how I might look thirty years down the road; three which imagine how I might have looked if painted by El Greco (I really like the “Don Quixote” one!); one which looks back to my infancy (to be honest, I didn’t have a goatee back then…still, good try ;-). I also had fun seeing how I’d look if I were Asian, African, or if I were a woman. You’ve got to keep an open mind about these things.

So without further ado…here are a few variations on the theme of “El Jardinero”:

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