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Empathic Painting through Computer Science!
By Nicole Marques
We all know that empathy is in some way the ability to experience the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself. Well in recent years a new level of empathy has been developed through a computer process known as "Empathic painting", an interactive rendering whose appearance adapts in real time to reflect the perceived emotional state of the user. Amazingly the images on screen, let's say a scenery, will adjust to changes in a subject's mood. A frown (sadness) will result in a mostly gray image, a happy face (large smile) will give birth to a brighter colored image, fixing a hard stare on the target (anger) will trigger a wave of seriously reddish tones. Tranquility (peaceful expression) will show as an even-colored image with slightly subdued tones! The University of Bath in south-west England presented its "Empathic painting"* experiment in the electronic artwork at a symposium on non-photo-realistic animation and rendering, part of the International Animation Festival in France in 2006 which allowed people all over the world to be formally introduced to this amazing trial. A pretty incredible project in which the computer-software observes a few facial features and is capable of recognizing and translating on screen the emotions of a subject instantaneously. The computer is actually recognizing a user's facial expressions giving a visual rendering algorithm resembling a painting. The image on screen changes as the subject changes its facial expression: smile, pout etc. This could really affect the way we work digitally on the computer, only an experiment right now but the possibilities are extraordinary when we start thinking about it. On a different level but still connected to empathy, there is also something called "The Mirror Space Project" (not the Znamya 2.5 Russian mirror-project.) The "Mirror Space project" in which the subject can experience his "converted" image on screen. The effect can be seized by our perception and presented in this system as dynamic data transformed in three-dimensional objects! This artistic system is to be further developed so the artist is able to realize one day, her or his philosophical vision by means of electronic interaction. It looks like the future holds some interesting tools to experiment with! :-)
This intel first appeared on: http://digitalartofnicolelmarques.blogspot.com/
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http://www.zics.net/mirror_space/seite2pice.htm
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