Mathing with Theo

Ever wanted to know what portions of your webpage or picture attract the most attention from the human eye? You have two options…

1.) Run a very expensive eye tracking hardware/software test with multiple users.

2.) Go to Feng-Gui and get a simulated eye tracking analysis done for free in a matter of seconds. The technology replicates and simulates how human eyes tend to look at things. This site will even give you a heat map (red is the most intensely looked at portion) free to dowload!

Here’s what the latest version of Scroggles! looks like to the average person. Do you find the result correct?

Artificial Intelligence is more than just a field devoted to the study of robots and computers that can perform really useful tasks. Artificial Intelligence seeks to study and reproduce the part of the human mind which is responsible for logic, creativity, art, and poetry. What makes a human intelligent is what AI researchers seek to understand and eventually recreate.

This software called the Painting Fool was created by AI researchers in England. It takes a video clip of a human face, attempts to recognize the emotional content on the face and then create a painting of that face.

What seems easy to an artist, capturing the mood of the subject in the painting, is something which to this point has been very difficult for a machine. Computers may be good number crunchers, but they are horrible interpreters.

Check out the website referenced above for more of The Painting Fool’s artwork. It’s unique and quite interesting.