A doctor's 'Golden Ratio' formula claims to tell you if you're beautiful. So how did these brave writers measure up...

A doctor's 'Golden Ratio' formula claims to tell you if you're beautiful. So how did these brave writers measure up..

. By Alice Hart-davis Published: 02:20, 6 August 2024 | Updated: 02:20, 6 August 2024 e-mail View comments Alice Hart-Davis, 61 We like to think that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Yet the way our eyes assess a face comes down, it seems, to cold hard numbers — and a mathematical formula known as the ‘Golden Ratio’.

This classic ratio, or ‘divine proportion’, dates back to the Ancient Greek scholar Pythagoras, and was later used by Leonardo da Vinci to paint the face of the Mona Lisa. Today, Harley Street plastic surgeon Dr Julian De Silva has devised software which uses the golden ratio and facial mapping technology to measure beauty. Rating: 86.

61% A front-facing, non-smiling photograph – think your best passport shot – is scanned into the computer and out comes a series of complicated calculations derived from the measurement of a dozen angles and distances across the face. ‘The premise is that the closer the ratios of a face are to the number 1.618 (also know as ‘Phi’), the more beautiful they become,’ he explains.

Dr De Silva found actress Anya Taylor-Joy’s face, at almost 95 per cent, came closest to the Ancient Greeks’ idea of the most beautiful woman ‘There are many measurements on the face which adhere to the Phi ratio – the distance between the eyes compared with the length of the eyes, for example. The analysis sho.