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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. We've talked about this before by Aaron_Pike · · Score: 5, Informative
    This isn't exactly a repost, but we have discussed this before. The only article I could find in the /. archive was this one. There was another one that lead me to this very nice paper on the Uncanny Valley, which is the area of resemblance to human features that is not quite realistic enough and not abstract enough for people to feel comfortable with; it resembles more closely a corpse than a living being.