Empathic Paintings paint your mood

by Paul Miller, posted Aug 8th 2006 at 8:59PM

We knew our obscure collection of facial contortion capabilities would pay off sooner or later. A new project from the University of Bath called "Empathic Painting" reads the mood on your face and paints accordingly, sending you into a spiral of despair with the skill only a machine could manage. The researchers involved have cooked up some nifty algorithms to decide if you're angry, despairing, cheerful or just plain crazy based on your facial expressions. These emotional stats are then sent to the imaging program where the painting style and colors are switched out on the fly -- well, at 4 frames per second -- to match your feelings. For some reason we can imagine having a lot of dumb fun with this one.

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Tags: empathic paintings, EmpathicPaintings, mood, paintings, university of bath, UniversityOfBath

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giveaphuk @ Aug 8th 2006 10:02PM

are the developers of this amazing algorithm going to release a SDK to the public.

As a digital artist, i've often thought about this idea & to read about it happening gets me very excited.. I would love to use this algorithm for my own work.

thankyou & if the dev's of this idea happen to read this then please contact me so that i can impliment this into my own work (with full credit to you of course!)

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Aaron @ Aug 9th 2006 2:21AM

That's a cool idea, but at the same time I'd hate to have it around. Imagine if something bad just happened and this thing "sees" you... It'd be like it was mocking you or something. I don't really want things reflecting my bad mood, I want things to cheer me up. Still, it's very interesting, and I wonder what else it could lead to.

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DarkFader @ Aug 9th 2006 5:42AM

This is so useless...

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LS @ Aug 9th 2006 7:36AM

does it paint how ugly your face is too, cos that women is gonna be an artist extraordinaire if it does

saucer of milk for me....

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Frank @ Aug 9th 2006 9:08AM

I think this would be more useful if it had something other than the look on our face to judge our mood by. And although the corresponding art is cool, I'd be much more interested in tracking the raw data associated with my mood and attempt to find correlations between mood, diet, excercise, sleep levels, etc.

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Zord @ Aug 9th 2006 5:00PM

Damn, I would put it right betwixt that white girl's buttocks!

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