Algorithms Recast Your Favorite Hollywood Characters As Haunting Ghosts Shin Seung Back and Kim Yong Hun analyzed every 24th frame of a movie for a human face, then blended them all together into a single visage. There’s an eerie moment in Jack Finney’s sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers when the novel’s hero comes across a half-formed pod person for the first time. The alien doppelganger’s face has two eyes, two ears, a mouth, but there’s still something missing. It has no lines, wrinkles, or character. It is the physiognomy of a person but not the face of one; one of the main characters describes it with horror as being "like a blank face, waiting for the final finished face to be stamped onto it!" That would seem to be a fitting description of the gauzy blanks seen in the Portrait series. But instead of being representations of physiognomies waiting for the "finished face" to be stamped on, they’ve been stamped over and over again with the details of every single face you can see in Hollywood movies like The Matrix or Black Swan until they form a single digital countenance: the living face of that film’s ghost. Read Full Story bit.ly/148jmIH #Tech #Technology #News #Updates #Like #Follow #Comment
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:38:21 +0000