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The Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer
by Jason Clarke Mar 6th 2006
If you've ever wondered what you would look like when you're older, or younger, or Asian, or even illustrated by
a famous artist, then I've got a treat for you. The Perception Laboratory at the University of St Andrews has created a
Java applet called the Face Transformer that will take a photo of a
face and transform it in almost any way imaginable.
Although I can't see many practical uses for this technology other than perhaps using it to age photos of missing
persons (which is, of course a pretty useful use), it's definitely a fun toy to play with. And I can see how studies
into how humans perceive the world around them could lead to an experiment like this. Neat stuff.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
