This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Princess Eye Area
Mar
3
2015
When I saw Tangled, I noticed how large the princess’ eyes were.
Then Frozen came out, and their eyes were equally as large, it seemed. I figured that the new generation of CG animators favored large eyes as the favored style of beauty. But I also wondered if this could be quantified.
So I set out to objectively quantify it. It being the size of each Disney princess’ eyes relative to her face, as a percentage.
Here is my conclusion:
No, the relative eye sizes are not increasing. Rather, it is the wider head shape that makes it seem that way.
The winner is actually Tiana.
Here are the data to support that:
| Princess | Year | View | Eye Pixels | Face Pixels | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snow White | 1937 | front | 61 | 1554 | 3.925 |
| side | 21 | 1222 | 1.718 | ||
| Cinderella | 1950 | front | 45 | 1285 | 3.501 |
| side | 17 | 1584 | 1.073 | ||
| Aurora | 1959 | front | 53 | 1256 | 4.219 |
| side | 23 | 1174 | 1.959 | ||
| Ariel | 1989 | front | 55 | 968 | 5.681 |
| side | 48 | 1019 | 4.710* | ||
| Belle | 1991 | front | 99 | 1525 | 6.491 |
| side | 24 | 928 | 2.586 | ||
| Jasmine | 1992 | front | 110 | 1581 | 6.957 |
| side | 37 | 1277 | 2.897 | ||
| Tiana | 2009 | front | 144 | 1878 | 7.667 |
| side | 26 | 1253 | 2.075 | ||
| Rapunzel | 2010 | front | 120 | 1788 | 6.711 |
| side | 26 | 1050 | 2.476 | ||
| Anna | 2013 | front | 82 | 1265 | 6.482 |
| side | 16 | 795 | 2.0125 |
Note: while I wanted this to be an objective measurement, hair complicated things. Since the size and shape of hair and hairstyle varied from princess to princess, it needed to be eliminated from the data. So there is still a fair amount of subjective evaluation. I had to crop each image to the face (for front images) or head (for profile images) of each princess. For many, since the hair was significant, I had to guess where the edge of the face or outline of the skull was. My reference would be better termed “perceived facial area” or “perceived head size”.
* I didn’t have a good profile of Ariel’s face, so don’t trust this number.
How did I go about this? Here’s a walkthrough of my method, using Anna as a representative example.
First, I collected front and profile images of each princess.
Next, I normalized them. I chose a size of about 50×50 pixels, mainly because I wanted an easier time counting pixels. I cropped the image close around their faces so as to maximize the facial area in the image.
Then, I started counting the number of pixels in each eye.
After that, I realized how many pixels I would have to count to get an idea of the size of each face, and I decided not to count them manually.
After a quick search on the internet, I decided that the histogram would be the best way to go. So I erased the portion of the image that was not her face.
The Value option of the histogram tells how many pixels there are with any sort of value. Erased pixels have no value, so this told me how many pixels there were of her face.
1265
Then, I erased everything but her eyes.
The histogram then told me the area of her eyes, in pixels.
82
Then I noted the pixels counts and divided the eyes by the face to get the percentage.
82/1265 = 6.482%
Repeat for profile, then keep repeating for all princesses.
And Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful of form and face.
Genesis 29:17
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:21 am and has been carefully placed in the Ponder category.
