The image you have of your own face, is highly cartoonish.


	The image you have of your own face, is highly cartoonish.

einbar

12-27-2008 1:49 AM

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einbar says:

Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly substract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brain, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

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12-27-2008 10:55 AM

debbyski

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7gzXz1cHo

12-28-2008 5:01 PM

tidbit2

they are caricatures

12-28-2008 5:02 PM

tidbit2

I love the one in the paper that make the worst of famous people and politicians faces and features

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