Sa('c dde.p trong ma('t ai?

[AnHai Doan <anhai@cs.washington.edu>]

On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Tuan V Nguyen wrote:

> 	What is beauty? Answer: it is simply average. In a recent 
> issue of Nature, there was a study conducted by a group of 
> ingenious researchers, who discovered this when they developed a 
> computer program which "averaged" the features of a human face. It 
> superimposed one randomly picked face upon another, then melded 
> the two images. They produced a series of images resulting from 
> the averaging of between two and nine faces, varying. When they 
> asked their subjects to choose the most beautiful face, without 
> exception, they considered the face with the most superimpositions 
> as the most beautiful. So, beauty is THE average, folks!

Ba'c Tua^'n,

Ba'c vie^'t ve^` sa('c dde.p ma` phang toa`n tu+` ddao to bu'a lo+'n 
nhu+ "random, gene, scientific,..." nghe kinh qua'. Ca'i phe'p "beauty
is THE average" cu?a ba'c to^i ngo+` la` kho^ng ddu'ng. Tru+o+'c 
to^i theo ho.c mo^.t ba'c su+ to^? ve^` nga`nh sa('c dde.p (ma(.c du` 
ba'c na`y xa^'u trai nhu+ ma) thi` ddu+o+.c da.y ra(`ng ca'i quye^'t 
ddi.nh pha^`n lo+'n trong sa('c dde.p la` su+. ca^n ddo^'i. Co^ na`o 
ma(.t mu~i ca^n ddo^'i thi` co^ a^'y tro^ng hay. Co`n co^ na`o ma(.t mu~i 
kho^ng ca^n ddo^'i thi` tro^ng ... i't hay ho+n (ta^'t nhie^n tru+` 
Sophia Loren ra).

Ne^'u ba'c cu+' la^'y trung bi`nh ki'ch thu+o+'c ma(.t cu?a tha^.t nhie^`u
co^ thi` ca'i ba'c dda.t ddu+o+.c la` su+. ca^n ddo^'i (symmetry). Ba'c co'
nghi~ the^' kho^ng? 

Co`n co' thuye^'t cho ra(`ng sa('c dde.p la` mo^.t ha`m so^' cu?a bia. 
Va^'n dde^` la` ba'c dda~ uo^'ng bao nhie^u bia ...

To^i thi` theo ho.c thuye^'t "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", ma` 
ca'c cu. nha` ta hay no'i no^m na la` "sa('c dde.p o+? trong dduo^i ma('t 
cu?a ke? si ti`nh". Tha^.t ra thi` ca'c cu. dda~ kha(?ng ddi.nh ddi 
kha(?ng ddi.nh la.i ddie^`u na`y tu+` la^u la('m ro^`i.

Ne^'u ba'c kho^ng tin thi` mo+`i ba'c ddo.c ba`i ca dao sau:

La^'y cho^`ng tu+` thuo+? mu+o+`i la(m
Cho^`ng che^ to^i be' kho^ng na(`m vo+'i to^i...

Wait a sec, ...xin lo^~i ba'c buo^`n ngu? qua' vie^'t lo^.n. DDu'ng no' 
la` nhu+ the^' na`y:

Lo^~ mu~i em mu+o+`i ta'm ga'nh lo^ng
Cho^`ng ye^u cho^`ng ba?o ra^u ro^`ng tro+`i cho
DDe^m na(`m thi` nga'y o o
Cho^`ng ye^u cho^`ng ba?o nga'y cho vui nha`
DDi cho+. thi` hay a(n qua`
Cho^`ng ye^u cho^`ng ba?o ve^` nha` ddo+~ co+m
Tre^n dda^`u nhu+~ng ra'c cu`ng ro+m
Cho^`ng ye^u cho^`ng ba?o hoa tho+m ra('c dda^`u
...

The^' na`y kho^ng pha?i "sa('c dde.p o+? trong dduo^i ma('t ke? si ti`nh" 
thi` la` gi` nu+~a?

Ha?i.
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