{"id":2532,"date":"2015-05-25T03:38:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T03:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:23:28","slug":"what-does-the-average-biker-dude-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/25\/what-does-the-average-biker-dude-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does the Average Biker Dude Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CNN published the mugshots<\/a> of all of the biker gang members who were arrested after the recent shootout in a Waco, TX restaurant<\/a>. There were a total of 171 pictures, all in the same standard pose and most in the same standard orange jumpsuit:<\/p>\n

\"Mugshot_Matrix\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Seeing all of these pictures got me wondering if it was possible to create an image that represented the typical gang member. I had seen a technique called “pixel averaging” applied to a series of wedding photos many years ago and I was able to find a tool called ImageJ<\/a> that helped me with the processing.<\/p>\n

It was a fairly straightforward effort … just upload the individual photos into an image stack and then apply a z-filter to each pixel of each “slice” or picture in the stack. The result is as follows:<\/p>\n

\"Mugshot_Pixel_Avg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite a wide variety of ages, facial hair, and ethnic backgrounds in the mugshots, the combined image looks like some guy you might see at a weekend softball game. It certainly gives no indication of how dangerous some of these men (and women) can be.<\/p>\n

Updates:<\/p>\n