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Realistic Human Graphics Look Creepy

Posted by michael on from the talking-heads dept.

WellHungMonkey writes "A really interesting read on Slate about how realistic human faces in games and on robots and so on, are not necessarily the way to go -- the brain isn't fooled, it attaches itself easier to Snoopy-like simplicity... Or Lara Croft attributes, but I'm not sure that's the brain talking."

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  1. I don't care how realistic the figures look... by miroth · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...as long as the blood spatters are lifelike when I blow their heads off.

  2. sorta like... by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    The once-cute robot now looks like an animated corpse. Our warm feelings, which had been rising the more vivid the robot became, abruptly plunge downward.

    Michel Ja...uh...Jefferson.

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  3. examples? by nycsubway · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like to see some examples of these pictures. Sure they are creepy, sometimes people can be fooled though. I had a picture of Aki in a bikini from the Final Fantasy movie on my computer. My girlfriend found it and wanted to know why I had it. She didn't beleive me that it wasn't a real person.

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  4. here are the pictures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    scary pictures in case of slashdot effect

    :-)
    :-|
    :-(

  5. Re:Curve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    > I was disappointed with the semi-recent Hulk movie, but does that mean the game
    > had to suck too?

    Yeah, they unfortunately planned that at a board meeting. A minority of the execs thought about making both good, then they tried to compromise on bad movie good game, then the CEO said "fuck it, they will both suck." And all the yes-men in the room agreed.

  6. R2-D2 is humanlike?? by SkankhodBeeblebrox · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article:

    When an android, such as R2-D2 or C-3PO, barely looks human, we cut it a lot of slack. It seems cute. We don't care that it's only 50 percent humanlike.


    If you know ANYONE who even VAGUELY resembles R2-D2, I want to see pictures!! (yes, I know they were using them as examples of androids, but jesus... I think using C3PO alone would have sufficed :P
  7. The problem is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most humans are inherently creepy.

    Why would machine replicas be any different?

  8. Re:Reminds me of another article by TheLoneCabbage · · Score: 5, Funny


    This has got to be the first time in history that a new technology CANT be used for porn!

    Mod this up, this is brilliant!

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