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Orbital vector / infraorbital rim position
what a photo can give, and how we take it.

The parts of the eye socket a photo can actually read: under-eye darkness (ΔL*), eye openness and canthal tilt. Each is scored and placed on the masculinity axis.

Also searched as negative orbital vector, positive orbital vector, under-eye support and infraorbital rim.

Why the textbook version needs more than a photo
bony
Canthion reports
Photographic equivalent

What we report

The parts of the eye socket a photo can actually read: under-eye darkness (ΔL*), eye openness and canthal tilt. Each is scored and placed on the masculinity axis.

globeinferior orbital rim:bone, under the cheekorbital vector:front of cornea to rimdefined in lateral view. a lateral photogives a soft-tissue proxy for the rim
The orbital vector is the front of the cornea against the inferior orbital rim, seen from the side. The rim is bone under the cheek, so a lateral photo gives only a soft-tissue proxy for it.

Why not the clinical number itself

Defined in lateral view as the sagittal relationship of the cornea to the inferior orbital RIM. The rim is bone. A frontal photo cannot compute it at all, and a lateral photo gives only a soft-tissue proxy. Of everything consumer tools claim, this is the clearest example of a measurement they provably cannot make.

What we measure instead

Ratios of near-coplanar frontal distances, angles relative to the interpupillary line, and skin appearance. Each comes with an error bar, and each is placed against a population you choose. Start an analysis or read the methodology.

What the report gives you insteadDark circles under the eyesEye opennessCanthal tilt

Same question, different measurement: what the clinical version needs, and what a photograph can give instead.

Gonial anglebony · what a photo can giveRamus : mandibular body ratiobony · what a photo can giveNasofacial angle, and any profile angle taken against a planelateral · what a photo can giveRicketts E-line, Steiner S-line, Holdaway H-linelateral · what a photo can giveOgee curve scoreinvented · what a photo can giveGolden ratio / Marquardt Phi mask fitrefuted · what a photo can give

What is measured instead

Intercanthal distance : palpebral fissure lengthEyes · tier AAlar base width : intercanthal distanceNose · tier AMouth width : alar base widthLips · tier AUpper : lower vermilion heightLips · tier APhiltrum length : chin heightLower face · tier APalpebral fissure height : lengthEyes · tier A
← Ricketts E-line, Steiner S-line, Holdaway H-lineOgee curve score →

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