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Notes04/15/2016
BrianBuchanan
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Some clever people at Delft University of Technology recently developed an algorithm to analyse the facial features of portraits. They scanned in the data points from many paintings and came up with something called The Next Rembrandt, a digitally generated picture based on the statistical average of the artist's work.
It shows a Dutch burgher in black hat and coat and large white ruff collar. The computer has perfectly reproduced the painter's technique and the picture looks like a real Rembrandt, but the subject appears to lack individuality - he's an everyman with no soul.
This may be an impressive feat of engineering but the folks at Puig have long since discovered the trick. It seems they took the vital statistics of Quorum and Paco Rabanne pour Homme from the safe, ran them through perfume recognition software along with vetiver oil, worked out the average and programed it into their compounding machine.
It shows a Dutch burgher in black hat and coat and large white ruff collar. The computer has perfectly reproduced the painter's technique and the picture looks like a real Rembrandt, but the subject appears to lack individuality - he's an everyman with no soul.
This may be an impressive feat of engineering but the folks at Puig have long since discovered the trick. It seems they took the vital statistics of Quorum and Paco Rabanne pour Homme from the safe, ran them through perfume recognition software along with vetiver oil, worked out the average and programed it into their compounding machine.
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