3D face – Finding your facial staircase

Humans have two eyes. When viewing objects through these two eyes, we have spatial vision that enables us to assess the distance from these objects. Distinguishing the distance from the object, we can perceive where it protrudes and recedes.

What we’re really seeing with our eyes in real life is three-dimensional (3D). On the other hand, if we look at a picture of it on a regular TV or monitor, we’re seeing a two-dimensional figure (2D) on one plane. We can see things three-dimensionally on a flat surface through 3D movies, 3D TVs, and 3D monitors. Movies, TVs, and monitors all implement three-dimensional images using the same principle.

[ Image source: Google - translated ]

When shooting, two cameras are placed side by side as though viewing with your left and right eyes. When viewed on the screen later, only the video taken on the left side is seen with your left eye, and the video taken on the right side with your right eye. This selective viewing through each eye is the representative technology using polarized lenses.

For example, let’s say a video is filmed from the left camera with a horizontally polarized filter and from the right camera with a vertically polarized filter. When viewing the video later with a horizontally polarized lens placed in front of the left eye and a vertically polarized lens in front of the right eye, only the video taken from the same side can be seen, making the screen appear three-dimensional. Glasses with polarized lenses are needed to view three-dimensional images filmed using polarization. The glasses that are handed out when watching 3D movies in theaters are glasses with polarized lenses.

The reason why stereoscopic screens are in the spotlight is that they are more visually diverse and realistic than flat surfaces. I still vividly recall the ball thrown by a pitcher coming at me in a three-dimensional video that I saw at a fair when I was young. In the same context, one of the important conditions for a beautiful face shape is that it is three-dimensional.

In fact, a lot of plastic surgery is performed in the direction of making the face more three-dimensional. Particularly surgeries involving putting something in the face, such as raising the nose or fat injections, usually make the face appear more three-dimensional. Color makeup is also applied on the face in such a way to make it appear more three-dimensional.

Caucasians have a three-dimensional face because facial growth is centered on the nose. They have high noses with the entire jaw located relatively in the back, making it convex. On the other hand, Asians often have a less developed nose and a relatively more developed lower jaw, making the nose low with a protruding chin. This makes for a small height difference between the nose and chin, making the face flat, closer to a plane.

I'll show you a very simple but surefire way to distinguish a good three-dimensional face. It's looking for stairs on the face. Having stairs on your face enables good three-dimensional effect, so it's very likely a beautiful face shape. There's good three-dimensional effect when the nose, upper lip, and lower lip are layered like stairs. In other words, a face is three-dimensionally good when you can draw a staircase-like line over the nose, upper lip, and lower lip. Among them, the difference in height between the upper and lower lips is the most important factor in having a beautiful three-dimensional face. It's better for the lower jaw to be naturally placed behind the upper jaw, and the lower lip also naturally behind the upper lip.

With malocclusion, especially when the lower jaw protrudes forward like a jutting chin, the face shape is flat or severely concave. In order to correct the malocclusion in such instances, the lower jaw is pushed back through orthognathic surgery, which corrects the occlusion and creates a good three-dimensional effect on the face. This three-dimensional effect is why orthognathic surgery, which corrects jutting chin, has a great cosmetic effect. It's because of this three-dimensional effect that people have come to consider orthognathic surgery as the epitome of cosmetic surgery.

This three-dimensional effect is also an important feature of appearing youthful. If you look closely at a baby's face, you'll see that the lower jaw hasn’t developed yet, making it a very three-dimensional face with the lower jaw behind the upper jaw. As the face grows, the lower jaw gradually comes forward, and as a result, the face becomes increasingly flatter. The degree of flatness is a very important criterion for making your face appear old. These days when youthfulness is an important aspect when it comes to beauty, a three-dimensional face is both youthful and attractive.

#drjinsoolee #plasticsurgeryessay #facelineplasticsurgeryclinic #orthognathicsurgery #twojawsurgery #threedimensionalface