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Monday, February 06, 2006

Mona's Happy Sneer

Some profs used emotion-recognition software to analyze Mona Lisa’s smile.

One of their considerations is whether the model was a woman or old Leonardo, who knew a thing or two about keeping down overhead.

Their findings:

Whether it was Da Vinci or another model, "her" emotions are clear, according to Sebe and Huang. Her dominant emotion, at 82.67 percent, is happiness, but she has lesser feelings of disgust (9.17 percent) and fear (5.81 percent), and a tiny amount of anger (2.19 percent).

How those feeling can be expressed at the same time is not adequately explained.

Read the whole sorry tale here.

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