Sunday, March 4, 2007

Interactive Face Morph

Interactive Face Morph: Ben Bradford

Aimed at all ages the interactive face morph is a frame that takes a photo of the users face from a (preferably) hidden camera. The user can then select different “morph” types from a side menu on the screen and touch areas of the face to morph.


::RELATED PROJECTS::

http://www.fifex.co.uk/c_sub/ex_ffm.htm#

This is a project created by the perception lab at the University of St. Andrews which incorporates the main idea behind the Interactive face morph.

http://www.moshimachine.com/

Located at the bottom of the page is a brief overview of the 'Face Morph 2000'
This projects incoprporates all the ideas of the interactive face morph but is only limited to 3 distortions at seperate times.

http://facialplasticsurgery.lookingyourbest.com/inamodel/index.php

This program incorporates the basic idea of distortion or face manipulation. Although it is not designed for face morphing, the basic concepts of feature manipulation is relevant to the Interactive face morph.

http://www.softsland.com/Fun_Morph.html

This is a program that morphs the users face with another image. In the screenshot provided on the site it collaborates a childs face with a cat.

http://www.morpheussoftware.net/morpheusmorph/

This program uses images to manupulate between, not user interaction. The program morphs between the images that users provides.

http://www.morphases.com/editor/

This is an online face morpher which generates a random face and the user can manipulate selected facial features.


::PROJECT CONSTRAINTS::

+ Using touch screens to manipulate images
+ Available Software
+ Available Equipment
+ The ability to use more than one manipulation in one 'session'
+ Size of the final product

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