Art Selfie

Google is not only dedicated to analyzing and searching web pages to make them locatable through your Internet browser. It is also digitizing art from around the world. That is why its application Google Arts & Culture (arts and culture) is a source of information on painting and architecture, as well as art history for all those interested in these disciplines of humanity. Of course, they also have fun with functions like Art Selfie, with which find your double in any of the scanned pictures from a mere selfie or portrait.

This is a function included within this culture application. Far from what it may seem, there is a lot of technology behind it, but most likely it will attract your attention due to its fun aspect. Actually, artificial intelligence and machine learning are in charge of analyzing your selfie and comparing your features with those of faces scanned from different works of art registered in their system. In this way, it creates a whole selection of more or less familiar faces with which there is a high percentage of resemblance.

The interesting thing about all this, besides the good time you spend comparing your own face with those of characters that are captured in paintings, is all the information that you have access to. And it is that, a simple click on the painted face allows us to know historical data about the painting to which it belongs or about the author who painted it.

How to make your own comparison

The process is simple and suitable for any user. Of course, you have to download the Google Arts & Culture application, which is free for both Android and iPhone Just go to the Google Play Store or the App Store, depending on the platform to which our mobile belongs, and download it like any other application.

Once inside, without prior registration or configuration of any kind, we look for the Art Selfie function. You can find it on the app's feed or wall as it has been recently released for all users. The app says you need to take a selfie to compare it against thousands of works of art to find reasonable matches. All that remains is to click on Start and give permissions to the Google application to use the camera.

At this moment we are taking a selfie Keep in mind that the inclination of your face, the lighting on it and the expression can make a difference the future of the result. And it is that even taking a selfie with or without glasses causes the percentage of similarity with the different works to vary remarkably. The good thing is that you can repeat the process as many times as you want, so don't worry too much about how you look in the selfie.

After taking the screenshot, the Google Arts & Culture application takes a few seconds to analyze and compare your features. A process that is shown with a simple animation on your self-portrait, making the waiting time shorter. In just a few seconds you can see the result and be surprised at the possible similarities

Google Arts & Culture proposes a series of similarities, all of them ordered according to the percentage of similarity. You just have to click on the circles with the similar faces at the top to see the different comparisons with respect to your selfie. All of them are titled with the name of the similar character And, as we said, you can investigate even more about the work just by clicking on the picture.

But the most fun is seeing the reactions of your friends, family and followers. To do this you can share the comparison with the symbol in the upper right corner. From here you can send the resulting image via WhatsApp, post it on Instagram, or share it via email or any social channel.