IMHO an under-explored bit of intuition is crops in the frequency domain.
If you want to try this for yourself grab a megabyte of photos of “conventionally attractive” selfies and a megabyte of selfies chosen at random and gzip them.
I’m personally not all that symmetrical so I don’t compress all that well. But I suspect you’ll find that “pretty” people compress better.
Same experiment with pop music vs serious jazz, same result.
I have a pet theory that everything from caffeine to alcohol is cropping in the Fourier domain.
If you want to try this for yourself grab a megabyte of photos of “conventionally attractive” selfies and a megabyte of selfies chosen at random and gzip them.
I’m personally not all that symmetrical so I don’t compress all that well. But I suspect you’ll find that “pretty” people compress better.
Same experiment with pop music vs serious jazz, same result.
I have a pet theory that everything from caffeine to alcohol is cropping in the Fourier domain.
It’s a fun experiment, try it out!