What this experiment shows
The leading match moves from Square toward Round as the jaw corner softens, even though all three width ratios are unchanged. Near the transition, the runner-up remains useful information rather than an error to hide.
Round: curved jaw corner
Square: defined jaw corner
Inputs and method
We fix face length / cheek width at 1.26, forehead / cheek width at 0.89, jaw / cheek width at 0.91, and chin angle at 116°. We vary only the jaw corner angle from 132° to 160° in 4° steps. Each row uses the production seven-profile matcher, including its weights and rounding.
Calculation version: ARF calculation experiments 1.0. Engine: ARF Local Geometry v3.0.
Calculated results
| Jaw corner (°) | Closest match | Match share (%) | Second match | Second share (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 132 | Square | 56 | Triangle | 26 |
| 136 | Square | 51 | Triangle | 25 |
| 140 | Square | 45 | Triangle | 24 |
| 144 | Square | 38 | Round | 26 |
| 148 | Round | 35 | Square | 30 |
| 152 | Round | 44 | Square | 24 |
| 156 | Round | 53 | Square | 17 |
| 160 | Round | 62 | Square | 12 |
How to use this when reading your result
Use the detector as a guide to a contour, then read both leading profiles when they are close. For hairstyles or glasses, you can borrow ideas from both. Pulling hair away from the outline and using a consistent frontal photo makes comparisons easier, but does not turn a styling category into a biological fact.
What this experiment cannot tell you
These are chosen inputs to hand-set profiles, not a study of labelled faces. Match shares are normalized model similarities, not calibrated probabilities that a person belongs to a category. The boundary belongs to this version of this calculator.
Sources and calculation choices
This experiment tests AI Rate Face's own hand-set shape profiles. It has no external population dataset or clinical reference. The exact profiles and formula are included in the downloadable calculation code.
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