symmetry
Original: symmetry on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with flame-like orange hair: Did you know that humans are attracted to bilateral symmetry?
Panel 2:
Man with orange hair: It's an evolved response. Perfect symmetry is biologically very hard to fake. Nobody's left and right sides perfectly match, but the closer they are the more high quality of a mate they're likely to be.
Panel 3:
Man with orange hair: Oh man, have you met my friend, Trilateral Bob?
Woman with dark curly hair: What.?
Panel 4 (no dialogue):
The two characters look toward something off-panel.
Panel 5:
Trilateral Bob (a figure whose face has three-fold radial symmetry, with a single central eye, framed against a pink background): Hey girl.
Panel 6:
Man with orange hair: So hot.
Woman with dark curly hair: So fuckin' hot.
Votey:
A close-up of Trilateral Bob's face: a brown, three-fold radially symmetric face with a single small central eye and curving, swirling line features arranged around it.
Man with flame-like orange hair: Did you know that humans are attracted to bilateral symmetry?
Panel 2:
Man with orange hair: It's an evolved response. Perfect symmetry is biologically very hard to fake. Nobody's left and right sides perfectly match, but the closer they are the more high quality of a mate they're likely to be.
Panel 3:
Man with orange hair: Oh man, have you met my friend, Trilateral Bob?
Woman with dark curly hair: What.?
Panel 4 (no dialogue):
The two characters look toward something off-panel.
Panel 5:
Trilateral Bob (a figure whose face has three-fold radial symmetry, with a single central eye, framed against a pink background): Hey girl.
Panel 6:
Man with orange hair: So hot.
Woman with dark curly hair: So fuckin' hot.
Votey:
A close-up of Trilateral Bob's face: a brown, three-fold radially symmetric face with a single small central eye and curving, swirling line features arranged around it.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A man with flame-like orange hair tells a woman with dark curly hair that humans are attracted to bilateral symmetry, explaining it's an evolved response because perfect symmetry is biologically hard to fake, so the more symmetric a person is, the higher-quality a mate they seem. He then asks if she's met his friend 'Trilateral Bob.' She says 'What.?' They both turn to look. A new figure appears against a hot-pink background: a face with three-fold radial (not bilateral) symmetry and a single eye in the center, saying 'Hey girl.' Despite this being threefold rather than bilateral symmetry, the man says 'So hot.' and the woman says 'So fuckin' hot.' The joke: if symmetry is what's attractive, radial symmetry would be even more so. Votey: an extreme close-up of Trilateral Bob's brown, threefold-symmetric face with its single central eye and swirling curved features.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.