{"id":1486,"date":"2009-02-24T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2009-02-24T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:55:00","slug":"thats-my-face-deathmask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/02\/24\/thats-my-face-deathmask\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s My Face! Deathmask!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsmyface.com\/index.php?page=shop.product_details&amp;flypage=flypage.my.ilvm_grey.tpl&amp;product_id=26&amp;category_id=3&amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;Itemid=33\">That&#8217;s My Face<\/a> constructs 3-D likenesses of people with the help of 2 photos [front and profile] and a bunch of data points about the boundaries of certain features. One use for the likenesses is that of 1:6 action fig heads. I&#8217;m not impressed for several reasons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The software best captures &quot;neutral expressions,&quot; meaning that the resultant likenesses lack the recognizable expressions that give people so much of their personality.<\/li>\n<li>Because the likenesses are based only on front and side views, they completely neglect the width, depth and subtleties of the chin and jaw, not to mention the cranium.<\/li>\n<li>On a more personal note, the likenesses require entirely too much fiddling to establish boundaries and then wait for the effect of those boundaries on the finished sculpt. I would much prefer working directly with material that I can touch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Computers might be very capable, but they are not as awesome as people think they are for capturing vivid, lively, nuanced likenesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s My Face constructs 3-D likenesses of people with the help of 2 photos [front and profile] and a bunch of data points about the boundaries of certain features. One use for the likenesses is that of 1:6 action fig heads. I&#8217;m not impressed for several reasons. The software best captures &quot;neutral expressions,&quot; meaning that&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/02\/24\/thats-my-face-deathmask\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That&#8217;s My Face! Deathmask!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}