dke opened this issue on Dec 05, 2003 ยท 40 posts
dke posted Sun, 07 December 2003 at 5:20 PM
Attached Link: http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/humanface/articles/mask.html#
This was a TV show on the Discovery channel, and was about a world-wide study by a doctor into 'measuring' beauty. Not really about 'cute' but pretty related. It's been a long time since I saw the show, but basically they sampled various societies and racial groups in an attempt to define a human standard for beauty that would be recognized by all. Not sure how much the site goes into the details because I only went there to get the 'mask' they developed that is suppose to define generic beauty. Also doesn't have much to do with over sizing body parts, or even cuteness, but at least a study on measuring the visual appearance of beauty, and an attempt to produce a generic and possibly even genetic definition. Like all such subjective works, the show seemed to have as many exceptions to the rule as matches :) There was also a similar show that used body shape silhouettes in an attempt to define the 'perfect' body shape on a world-wide, non-racial basis. Not sure if there's a site about that, but it did air on the same channel.