8 September 2013
Post No: 5
Human Face >> General Information
I am interested to know firstly when, why and how mankind got obsessed with a human face, still is an unsolved mystery.
While tracing the roots from latest computer art to sculptures, portraits, illustrations, sketches, manuscripts up to cave paintings, we can see evolution of mankind. This progress also reflects cultural developments.
Human face has fascinated many painters, poets, philosophers, physicians many other professionals, not only that but every pragmatist and even a pea brain. Amazing and interesting human face related information egressed from their writing, creations, experiments, findings and inferences. Collection of Human face related information and its synthesis is like viewing a diamond from various angles and appreciating each color from those color bands.
In a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th century which is called as renaissance, many artists and illustrators made efforts to explicate the human face through their creations. We can easily make out pace of the study of human face in the last millennium From centuries we are documenting our observations and from last 30 years it is at peak.
In 18th century, whole world was intrigued by many streams of science. One of them was Genetics, discipline of biology, the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. Darwin's theory of evolution and Gregor Mendel's study of inheritance are the most revolutionary concepts in the history of mankind. Human faces are ever evolving carrier of pattern and mutating surface. Till 19th century, Human group classification was mainly based on facial features. There are many theories about human races based on skin color, cranial or facial features and hair texture. Some of them are still topic of debate. The 0.1% genetic difference that differentiates any two random humans is still the subject of much debate. In the same period other streams like forensic science, plastic surgery and orthodontics also greatly evolved and added another dimension to the study of human face.
Since last 30 years, Computer science has made phenomenal developments and impacted each and every field. Because of its amazing data processing capability and speed the development pace was exponentially increased. With the help of Computer graphics, virtually every object can be simulated and visualized in 3D environment. Today scientists are performing anthropometry with three-dimensional scanners to calculate segmental volumes of an individual body scan. There are several examples in entertainment world that computer graphics has achieved ultimate realism. Human face has extremely intricate topology. In Hollywood movies facial modeling, texturing and
rendering is done in such a way that audience can not distinguish between fake and photo.
Everyday each field is evolving in different direction. Those inventions are revealing new dimensions of human face.
The fact that everyday new innovations are being made in all fields of science, every curious practitioner, thinker and philosopher is documenting his experiments and observations. This trend has picked up speed and complexity with the help of computer technology. Human Face related observations can be found in many different streams. The face related information scattered in various fields can be synthesized to form a solution that will address many questions raised over many generations. To navigate through this huge information ocean and extract the required data, one must have know-how of each stream. Keeping up with the flow of information in these fields is a difficult task.
I will discuss the most appropriate approach that I feel in the next blog post.
Post No: 5
Human Face >> General Information
I am interested to know firstly when, why and how mankind got obsessed with a human face, still is an unsolved mystery.
While tracing the roots from latest computer art to sculptures, portraits, illustrations, sketches, manuscripts up to cave paintings, we can see evolution of mankind. This progress also reflects cultural developments.
Human face has fascinated many painters, poets, philosophers, physicians many other professionals, not only that but every pragmatist and even a pea brain. Amazing and interesting human face related information egressed from their writing, creations, experiments, findings and inferences. Collection of Human face related information and its synthesis is like viewing a diamond from various angles and appreciating each color from those color bands.
In a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th century which is called as renaissance, many artists and illustrators made efforts to explicate the human face through their creations. We can easily make out pace of the study of human face in the last millennium From centuries we are documenting our observations and from last 30 years it is at peak.
In 18th century, whole world was intrigued by many streams of science. One of them was Genetics, discipline of biology, the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. Darwin's theory of evolution and Gregor Mendel's study of inheritance are the most revolutionary concepts in the history of mankind. Human faces are ever evolving carrier of pattern and mutating surface. Till 19th century, Human group classification was mainly based on facial features. There are many theories about human races based on skin color, cranial or facial features and hair texture. Some of them are still topic of debate. The 0.1% genetic difference that differentiates any two random humans is still the subject of much debate. In the same period other streams like forensic science, plastic surgery and orthodontics also greatly evolved and added another dimension to the study of human face.
Since last 30 years, Computer science has made phenomenal developments and impacted each and every field. Because of its amazing data processing capability and speed the development pace was exponentially increased. With the help of Computer graphics, virtually every object can be simulated and visualized in 3D environment. Today scientists are performing anthropometry with three-dimensional scanners to calculate segmental volumes of an individual body scan. There are several examples in entertainment world that computer graphics has achieved ultimate realism. Human face has extremely intricate topology. In Hollywood movies facial modeling, texturing and
rendering is done in such a way that audience can not distinguish between fake and photo.
Everyday each field is evolving in different direction. Those inventions are revealing new dimensions of human face.
The fact that everyday new innovations are being made in all fields of science, every curious practitioner, thinker and philosopher is documenting his experiments and observations. This trend has picked up speed and complexity with the help of computer technology. Human Face related observations can be found in many different streams. The face related information scattered in various fields can be synthesized to form a solution that will address many questions raised over many generations. To navigate through this huge information ocean and extract the required data, one must have know-how of each stream. Keeping up with the flow of information in these fields is a difficult task.
I will discuss the most appropriate approach that I feel in the next blog post.
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