3/23/2023 0 Comments Software face morph age![]() Anyway, I’m certain it took a great deal of effort in programming, and a huge number of person-hours to create. Probably some of the old Sun SPARC workstations people were also using at the time to do the post-production on Jurassic Park (where each frame of the effects shots of dinosaurs would take a full 24 hours to render!). The answer of course was computers – very big ones, and lots of them. I can remember thinking to myself as a teenager “how did they possibly do that?”. These days, this kind of special effect is absolutely ubiquitous in movies, TV shows and commercials and barely warrants a second glance, but in 1991, it was amazing. Towards the end of the video a series of people of both sexes and of various ethnic groups are shown singing along with the song and the images of their faces morph into each other in series: The single is of some significance as it marked the beginning of Jackson’s descent from the firmament of music stardom into the spiral of musical mediocrity and personal weirdness which only ended with his death in 2009, but for the purposes of the present discussion it was interesting because of part of its accompanying video. In November 1991 Michael Jackson released the single ‘Black or White’ the first to be released from his eighth album ‘Dangerous’. Rather than talk about the very technical disciplines like brain imaging (which have of course advanced enormously recently) I thought it would be more fun to concentrate on an area of relatively ‘pure’ psychology, and one of the most important and fundamental cognitive processes which is present pretty much from birth face perception. As an example of the ways in which technology and psychology have developed together recently, I thought it would be fun to do a little case-study of a particular area of research which has benefitted from advances in computer software over recent years.
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