I chose the topic of face blindness of my final project for “visualizing the five senses” because I was simply stunned while I bump into the website of prosopagnosia. It was almost at once I decided to create something under this topic and also I think it’s highly related to this class.
Prosopagnosia, also known as P.A. or face-blindness, is a symptom with which people lose the ability of identifying people by their faces. In my understanding the optimization module in the brain taking care of the facial recognition is not functioning, so that people can no longer associate the visually seen faces with the memory of people. Recognizing people in the social life becomes as hard as looking for one specific stone among thousands of them.
My proposed project is to recreate this experience for normal people by obscuring faces on the screen. Meanwhile the faces will be replaced by the texture of cloud. The idea is to create a mapping function between human faces and cloud shapes/patterns. Ideally I would be able to find a consistent conversion so that two similar faces should generate similar clouds.
some early sketches:
special thanks to “social genius”, images courtesy of ITP community