How your soulmate portrait is drawn, answer after answer
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The soulmate portrait on Profondio is not a photo taken from a stock image bank. It is a face drawn in pencil, after 29 questions. Here, step by step, is what your answers decide, what the code calculates, what the AI writes, and what the drawing cannot be.
It all starts with 29 questions
The soulmate questionnaire begins with a simple sentence: there are no right or wrong answers. It takes a few minutes. It has 29 questions, sometimes 28 depending on what you answer about children, with a few pause screens in between. Almost all of them are answered by choosing from the answers offered, three at most when you can tick several. Only your first name, your date of birth and, at the end, your email address are typed in.
Some questions are there to draw the face. Others are about you: where you are in matters of the heart, since when, what weighs on you, what you hope to live. Those do not decide the gender, the age or the origin of the face. They mainly feed the text the AI writes from your answers. To see what other people answered to the same questions, you can read the article that counts the answers of 1,682 people.
What your answers fix about the face
Four questions fix the physical features, and their answers come before everything else in the instructions for the drawing. The first asks who you hope to meet: a man or a woman. Then come their age, their origin and their look, which you choose from the options offered. For the look: sporty, elegant, relaxed or rather artistic.
The age is calculated, not guessed. Your age range is brought down to a central value, for example 37 for 35 to 39 year olds. Then your answer shifts the result: six years less for someone younger than you, five more for someone a little older, twelve more for someone clearly older. The portrait never goes below 20.
This calculation is done in the code, before the writing and before the drawing. The model that writes receives these features with the order never to contradict them.
When you answer “Doesn't matter”
A pencil has to choose something. So every “Doesn't matter” has a starting value. For the gender, it is the opposite of yours, and a man if you prefer not to say. For the age, it is yours. For the look, elegant and neat. The same goes for every feature: with no preference from you, the pencil starts from a neutral point, never from an assumption about you.
Better to tell you than to hide it. If one of these values does not look like you, do not answer “Doesn't matter”: choose what speaks to you, these questions are made for that.
What the writing adds
The basic physical features do not say everything about a face. So a writing AI reads all your answers and describes to the illustrator the expression, the gaze, the features and the hairstyle of the person who might suit you. It describes only the face, never the body, the posture or the clothes. This description is written in English, for the image model.
This is where what you said about the person you hope for can carry weight, for example a softer gaze or a livelier look. But it is an interpretation, not a measurement. Nobody knows how to read a quality on a face: that is why the text of the report is told never to explain a physical feature through psychology.
A pencil sketch, and only the face
The drawing itself is made by an image model. The instructions are precise: a graphite pencil sketch on white paper, with a loose line, soft shadows and a plain background. A front-facing close-up, from the hairline to the chin, with no shoulders, no hands, no clothes and no text at all. You see a portrait, not a scene.
You can then ask for a color version. The sketch is turned into a realistic image, with the same face, the same hairstyle and the same expression. Even then, it is a made-up image, never the photo of a real person.
What is calculated, what is written
During the questionnaire, the code does simple calculations on your first name and your date of birth. The vowels of your first name give a soul urge number, all its letters an active number. The digits of your date give your life path number. Their sum, brought down to 22 at most, also points to one of the twenty-two major arcana of the tarot, your birth card. Your date places you in the Chinese cycle of the twelve animals, whose year begins at the Chinese new year and not on January 1. These markers come from symbolic traditions, and the screens say so with “it's said that”.
In the full report, which has fifteen parts, from “What your heart is looking for” to “The signs that don't lie”, the AI writes around these markers. It has to tie each one to one of your answers, quoted between quotation marks, and never describe a sign or a number in general terms. You will find your assessment, “What holds you back from meeting them”, and “Where to meet them, really”, with concrete places chosen from what you said about your tastes and your pace of life, never a dating app. If you are hesitating between several readings, this article to choose which reading suits you will help.
What the portrait does not do
It predicts nothing. The text is told never to write “you will meet”, to make no diagnosis, to avoid any medical word and to promise nothing. If one of your answers suggests you are going through a heavy time, it has to say gently that talking to a professional or to someone close to you can help.
This face is invented by an image model: it is not the face of a real person, and it says nothing about who you will meet. If a resemblance appears, it will be chance. It is an image to help you think about what you are looking for, not a guide to decide whom to love. And if you are already thinking of a particular person, the article on romantic compatibility offers another way of looking.
To begin
Set aside a few quiet minutes. Give your real date of birth, since the numbers, the card and the Chinese sign come from it, and your first name as you use it. Answer “Doesn't matter” only when it is true. At the end, you leave your email address: that is where the link to your portrait is sent.
Whenever you like, you can take the soulmate questionnaire. Then read the portrait as an invitation to ask yourself what matters to you, and keep what speaks to you.
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