Look-Alike Meter’s Busting Family Fights
Like most families (at least those with a photographer about), we have a house that’s littered with pictures. That includes one of my favorites – my husband, circa the early eighties with a mop of brown hair.
So why, you might ask, does my mother continue to ask him if he was really blonde as a child? Ah, that would be my daughter – the towhead who I think looks a heckuva lot like I did when I was three.
Want to end that age-old argument over who they REALLY look like? The folks at MyHeritage.com have come up with the answer – the mash-up . . . sort of.
The Look-alike Meter lets you upload a mix of family pics (her with bad eighties glasses, him with bad eighties glasses, her with “the Rachel,” him with a Vanilla Ice fade) plus one of that sweet little dumpling or one of the entire family. It took awhile – even on my usually speedy cable connection – but if you have a good picture of all three of you, with faces straight and facing forward, you can shave some time.
Using facial recognition software (so makes me feel like I’ve jumped into a “Law and Order: SVU” episode), the Look-alike Meter then makes its picks. It’s cute, but rather unscientific (yeah, I was disappointed too). Without someone sitting there working with the photos, you can’t expect a lot. After all, my daughter apparently looks more like me by a whopping five percent (so the blue eyes, blonde hair and my grandmother’s forehead mean bupkus!).
But I don’t have to tell my mother the five percent part, right?
Hey Mom, she looks like me!!
Image: My Heritage
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LOL… I did it with my identical twins, and while it’s saying that they both look more like me than they do my husband, Josie looks more like me than Anna looks like me :-p