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sisyphusshrugged ([personal profile] sisyphusshrugged) wrote2003-09-04 02:14 am

this is harsh.

from an article in the Times about research to reproduce celebrity facial traits on artificial "actors":

The center has created several projects to help identify those physical traits. In one, researchers use photos to measure the distance between points on a face. By overlaying the distances found on one face onto another, the computer can create a caricature of the second person that incorporates the features of the first. For example, Michael Jackson's face could be overlaid with the essence of the filmmaker Michael Moore's, creating a Mooreish-looking Jackson.

That's just not nice at all.

Could you walk me through some stuff?

[identity profile] serenada.livejournal.com 2003-09-04 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
"When we finally understand what makes Humphrey Bogart look like the character that he is, we won't want to see new Bogart movies," said Dr. Ulrich Neumann, director of the Integrated Media Systems Center at U.S.C. "Rather, we will want to import his unique characteristics into other virtual humans." Filmmakers would then be able to, say, create an artificial actor with Bogart's tough-guy persona and have it do whatever they need.

1. What are the artificial actors for, if not new Bogart movies?
2. Why would we no longer want to see new Bogart movies?
3. What does his persona have to do with his face?

Thank you, ever so.

Re: Could you walk me through some stuff?

[identity profile] jmhm.livejournal.com 2003-09-04 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
It means "Dr. Ulrich doesn't think he can get funding to make Bogart dance with a vacuum cleaner"

Re: Could you walk me through some stuff?

[identity profile] jmhm.livejournal.com 2003-09-04 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
also what's with the "thanks ever so"? Is it one of those charming Pacific expressions you Jamaican folks use?


Re: Could you walk me through some stuff?

[identity profile] serenada.livejournal.com 2003-09-04 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Old world, baybee!

(Anonymous) 2003-09-06 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't there a film about this?

Looker (http://members.fortunecity.com/roogulator/sf/looker.htm), 1981

Ginger
www.hackenblog.com

[identity profile] jmhm.livejournal.com 2003-09-06 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
with Susan Dey, wasn't it? And Albert Finney.

Answering the age-old question "If someone replaced Susan Dey with an animatronic replica, could you tell?"

(Anonymous) 2003-09-06 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, touché, Julia, touché!

Ginger
www.hackenblog.com