A growing field of merging beauty and science

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/fashion/09skin.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The research, published in the August proceedings of Siggraph, an annual conference on computer graphics, is one of the latest studies in a growing field that merges beauty and science, a subject that has drawn mounting interest in academia in the last decade.

What makes a face attractive:

Symmetry is the core;

youthfulness;

clarity or smoothness of skin;

vivid color, say, in the eyes and hair.

Little dissent among people of different cultures, ethnicities, races, ages and gender.