Age progression
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Age progression is the process of modifying a photograph
of a person to represent the effect of aging on their appearance. Digital image processing
is the most common technique today, although sometimes artists' drawings are used. Age progression is most often used as a forensics
tool by law enforcement. It can be used to show the likely current appearance of a missing person
from a photograph many years old.
origin legend, who leaped from Zeus's skull fully grown. The protagonist of the Vietnamese Giong legend grew up rapidly.
Age progressions are a common theme in Japanese anime
and manga
. Many anime series feature girls transforming into often voluptuous women. They go through elaborate transformation sequences, in which their clothes are magically replaced with costumes, and their bodies are hidden by energy streamers. The transformation scene may be reused in each episode, emphasizing the characters' breasts and hips growing in a comical way. They may be shown blushing afterward. The earliest known case is the anime/manga series Marvelous Melmo
by Osamu Tezuka
. In each episode, the young girl Melmo has to help people by impersonating adult professions, like a stewardess or a policewoman. The plot was imitated in later series such as Minky Momo and Fancy Lala
. Age progression is a popular theme in hentai
manga. There are also many stories in which a character gets younger (age regression
).
Photograph
A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of...
of a person to represent the effect of aging on their appearance. Digital image processing
Digital image processing
Digital image processing is the use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images. As a subcategory or field of digital signal processing, digital image processing has many advantages over analog image processing...
is the most common technique today, although sometimes artists' drawings are used. Age progression is most often used as a forensics
Forensics
Forensic science is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to a legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or a civil action...
tool by law enforcement. It can be used to show the likely current appearance of a missing person
Missing person
A missing person is a person who has disappeared for usually unknown reasons.Missing persons' photographs may be posted on bulletin boards, milk cartons, postcards, and websites, along with a phone number to be contacted if a sighting has been made....
from a photograph many years old.
Other meanings
Age progression may also refer to several loosely related types of transformation, often shortened to AP, in which a character suddenly increases in age. The two main categories are child to adult transformation, and young adult into old age. Some overlap is possible; a child may become an adult, and then continue to old age.Age progression in media
Age progression is an occasional theme in anime/manga, motion pictures, cartoons and comics, literature, and stage performances. One of the earliest mentions is the AthenaAthena
In Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene , also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is...
origin legend, who leaped from Zeus's skull fully grown. The protagonist of the Vietnamese Giong legend grew up rapidly.
Literature
- A classic work where age progression is thwarted rather than accelerated, is Oscar WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
's The Picture of Dorian GrayThe Picture of Dorian GrayThe Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine...
; at the end of the story, the protagonist undergoes AP after killing his likeness in a painting, which had previously preserved Gray's youthful appearance. - In the book "Happy Birthday, Dear Amy" by Marilyn KayeMarilyn KayeMarilyn Kaye is a children's author. She taught children's literature at St. John's University, New York. She is the author of many children's and young adult novel series, including the successful Replica and Gifted series.-Biography:...
, a 13 year old girl grows into a 25 year old overnight.
Japanese media
Age progressions are a common theme in Japanese anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
and manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
. Many anime series feature girls transforming into often voluptuous women. They go through elaborate transformation sequences, in which their clothes are magically replaced with costumes, and their bodies are hidden by energy streamers. The transformation scene may be reused in each episode, emphasizing the characters' breasts and hips growing in a comical way. They may be shown blushing afterward. The earliest known case is the anime/manga series Marvelous Melmo
Marvelous Melmo
is a magical girl manga and anime by Osamu Tezuka. This series centered around Melmo, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is killed in an auto accident and has to then take care of her two younger brothers . While in Heaven the children's mother is given one wish...
by Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka
was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack...
. In each episode, the young girl Melmo has to help people by impersonating adult professions, like a stewardess or a policewoman. The plot was imitated in later series such as Minky Momo and Fancy Lala
Fancy Lala
Fancy Lala, known in Japan as is a magical girl anime series produced by Studio Pierrot in 1998. A two-volume manga adaptation by Rurika Kasuga ran in Ribon. The original designs were created by Akemi Takada, who worked on many of the 80's Studio Pierrot series...
. Age progression is a popular theme in hentai
Hentai
is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and computer games. The word hentai is a kanji compound of 変 and 態...
manga. There are also many stories in which a character gets younger (age regression
Age regression
-Age Regression in Myths and Mainstream Fiction :Age regression is a popular theme in transformation fiction involving the physical and/or mental reduction in age. This age regression often occurs via magic, including potions or the legendary fountain of youth, or from a science fiction plot device...
).
Motion pictures
- Film in which boys physically become men:
- BigBigBig is a 1988 romantic comedy film directed by Penny Marshall and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish "to be big" to a magical fortune-telling machine and is then aged to adulthood overnight...
- Vice Versa (1948)Vice Versa (1948 film)Vice Versa is a 1948 British comedy film written and directed by Peter Ustinov. It is the third screen adaptation of the 1882 novel of the same name by F. Anstey. The film was produced by Two Cities Films and distributed by General Film Distributors....
- Vice Versa (1988)Vice Versa (1988 film)Vice Versa is a 1988 comedy film starring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage. It is the fourth screen adaptation of the 1882 novel of the same name by F. Anstey...
- 14 Going on 3014 Going on 3014 Going on 30 is a 1988 made-for-TV movie broadcast by American Broadcasting Company and Buena Vista Television, and later distributed by Walt Disney Home Video. It stars Steven Eckholdt as Danny, a fourteen year old boy who is infatuated with his teacher Peggy Noble...
(1988 Disney movie) - Da GrandeDa Grande"Da Grande" is first single from Alexia's second hits compilation album Da Grande and was released on CD in 2005 "Da Grande" is first single from Alexia's second hits compilation album Da Grande and was released on CD in 2005 "Da Grande" is first single from Alexia's second hits compilation album...
- Wait 'til You're OlderWait 'Til You're OlderWait 'til You're Older is a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by Teddy Chan.-Plot:Kwong is a young boy who lives with his father and stepmother . He blames his stepmother for the suicide of his mother 3 years earlier and continually runs away from home...
- The Thief LordThe Thief LordThe Thief Lord is a children's novel written by Cornelia Funke. It was published in Germany in 2000 and translated into English by Oliver Latsch in 2002 for The Chicken House, a division of Scholastic publishing company...
- Big
- Body swap film in which young girls' souls end up in the bodies of older women. Films with girls are less likely to have physical transformations:
- Freaky FridayFreaky FridayFreaky Friday is a classic comedic children’s novel written by Mary Rodgers first published in the USA in 1972, and adapted for film several times.-Plot:...
(3 versions) - 13 Going on 3013 Going on 3013 Going on 30 is a 2004 American romantic comedy fantasy film starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. It has a similar premise to the classic short story Rip Van Winkle, in which a young person falls asleep and wakes up many years later as an older person...
- Wish Upon a StarWish Upon a StarWish Upon a Star is a 1996 television film directed by Blair Treu, written by Jessica Barondes, and starring Katherine Heigl and Danielle Harris. It focuses on two teenage sisters that magically swap bodies because of a wish made on a shooting star...
- Sixteen Wishes
- Freaky Friday
- One example of female age progression is Life In A Day or originally Antidote, a Canadian film about a baby rapidly aging because of a failed cell-accelerating experiment.
Television
- The BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
television series "Honey, We're Killing the KidsHoney, We're Killing the KidsHoney, We're Killing the Kids is the name of a BBC television series in which parents are shown the consequences of poor parenting. The program shows computer-generated images of what their children may look like as adults if they continue with their present life-style, dietary and exercise habits...
" focused on showing parents the consequences of poor parenting using the Age progression technique to estimate how their children may look like as adults if they continue with their present life-style, dietaryDiet (nutrition)In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. With the word diet, it is often implied the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management...
and exercise habitsHabit (psychology)Habits are routines of behavior that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously. Habitual behavior often goes unnoticed in persons exhibiting it, because a person does not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking routine tasks...
.