Question 1

Is my palm photo uploaded anywhere?

Accepted Answer

No. The photo is decoded into memory inside the page, measured there, and discarded. It is never transmitted, never written to local storage, session storage or IndexedDB, and there is no server that could receive it. Closing or reloading the tab wipes everything.

Question 2

How does a web page read a palm from a photograph?

Accepted Answer

The hand is separated from the background by skin tone and brightness, straightened, and the palm located between the finger creases and the wrist. Creases are found as places darker than the skin immediately around them, and the four major lines are traced from that map. Length, curve, sweep, depth and end position are measured in units of your own palm width, so the numbers do not depend on how close the camera was.

Question 3

What are the palm lines called in Sanskrit?

Accepted Answer

The Skanda Purana names three of them in one verse as the gotra, dravya and ayu rekha. The correspondence surprises most readers: the Western life line is the gotra-rekha or line of lineage, the head line is the dravya-rekha or line of substance, and the heart line — not the line around the thumb — is the ayu-rekha, the line the classical sources read for length of life. The fate line is the urdhva-rekha.

Question 4

Does the length of the life line show how long I will live?

Accepted Answer

No, and this page does not tell you a lifespan. The classical Indian sources read the ayu-rekha for years, but they also insist that a span must never be pronounced from a single line and must be weighed against the whole body. Palmistry has no scientific basis for predicting events, and this reading is offered for reflection and entertainment only.

Question 5

Which hand should I photograph?

Accepted Answer

Traditionally the dominant hand is read for the life as it is being lived and the other for what was given at birth. You can set which hand you photographed and which is dominant, and the reading takes that into account. For men the right hand is often given precedence and for women the left, though modern readers usually go by which hand you write with.