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Post by sebastian on Jul 5, 2010 5:54:42 GMT -5
So what techniques are used in making the impostors? A short list of general technique categories: - Lookalike persons - Imitation - Physical alteration (such as plastic surgery) - Photo manipulation - Audio manipulation - Video manipulation In addition each of those categories have more specific techniques. It should be assumed that there are techniques that are not known by the public, as these are the most powerful ones. With new technology there are new techniques coming constantly to each category. One new version of physical alteration through masks: Eery.  |
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Post by fauxster on Jul 9, 2010 19:29:20 GMT -5
There are also prosthetics, clones, robotoids, synthetics, & holograms.
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Post by sherlok on Jul 17, 2010 22:49:21 GMT -5
I think the voice imitation is an extremely import aspect.
People will "recognize" a person if the voice is familiar even if the
appearance is off.
Once, some years ago, I was in a super market in the LA area. I was
in the checkout line behind none-other-than Jimmy Stewart. He was old
and carrying a bag of oranges. No one else seemed to notice him but
it was him all right. No doubt about it. He moved up when it was his turn to
pay and the checker, working on automatic and with no recognition of him,
made with the usual small talk but Jimmy wisely said not one word. Then,
when the checker was done and gave him his change, he said one word,
"Thanks" and then the checker instantly recognized him as did some
other people nearby who watched him walk out of the store into a big
Lincoln Continental with darkened windows and drive off.
The voice was the big giveaway. More so than his appearance. I think
that's true of most people. If someone doesn't look quite right but the voice
sounds right then we "recognize" that person regardless of their
appearance.
When we watch animated movies with celebrity voices we recognize
those characters as those celebs even though the characters may not look
anything like them. The voice is more of a recognition point than their
appearance. That's my take on it anyway.
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Post by treegenus on Aug 3, 2010 20:01:43 GMT -5
And yes, there's the big giveaway. As you know the work they've done with voice recordings, finding major voice discrepancies with older and newer sound tracks of say, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Joan Baez to mention only a few replaced celebs, it makes you realize that that aspect of replacement hasn't been quite fine TUNED.
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Post by sabrina on Aug 6, 2010 22:29:51 GMT -5
So what techniques are used in making the impostors? A short list of general technique categories: - Lookalike persons - Imitation - Physical alteration (such as plastic surgery) - Photo manipulation - Audio manipulation - Video manipulation In addition each of those categories have more specific techniques. It should be assumed that there are techniques that are not known by the public, as these are the most powerful ones. With new technology there are new techniques coming constantly to each category. One new version of physical alteration through masks: Eery. Hmmm... perhaps this is the reason for the increasing number of bald headed weirdos I see all the time |
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Post by beatlies on Feb 13, 2011 1:04:41 GMT -5
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Post by beatlies on Aug 13, 2011 20:11:41 GMT -5
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Post by fauxster on Oct 29, 2011 22:26:18 GMT -5
Prince Charles Speaks in Abu Dhabi Via Hologram
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Post by beatlies on Feb 14, 2012 19:30:11 GMT -5
News for face transplant TopNews Arab Emirates 19 year-old transplant patient sees new face for the first time msnbc.com - 1 day ago Turkey's first face transplant patient, a 19-year-old man, saw his new face for the first time last month and got his first shave. 22 related articles Doctor tells of pressure during face transplant Boston Globe - 2 related articles Images for face transplant - Report images Face transplant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_transplant A face transplant is a still-experimental procedure to replace all or part of a person's face. The world's first full face transplant was completed in Spain in 2010. Beneficiaries of face transplant - History - Surgery and post-operation ... 7 amazing face transplants (GRAPHIC IMAGES) Pictures - CBS News www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10004273.html7 amazing face transplants (GRAPHIC IMAGES). Popular Galleries; Whitney Houston 1963-2012 · 2012 Grammys: Red-carpet arrivals · Whitney's last ... Chimp attack victim reveals new face - TODAY Health - TODAY.com today.msnbc.msn.com/.../chimp-attack-victim-speaks-about-new-face... Nov 21, 2011 – Six months after a face transplant gave her another chance at life, chimp attack victim Charla Nash grants an exclusive interview to TODAY, ... |
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Post by beatlies on Dec 18, 2012 11:35:04 GMT -5
Spider That Builds Its Own Arachnid Decoys Discovered
By Nadia Drake12.18.129:30 AM
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A decoy spider hangs below its much smaller builder, suspected to be a new species in the genus Cyclosa. Photo: Phil Torres.
A spider that builds elaborate, fake spiders and hangs them in its web has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon.
Believed to be a new species in the genus Cyclosa, the arachnid crafts the larger spider from leaves, debris and dead insects. Though Cyclosa includes other sculpting arachnids, this is the first one observed to build a replica with multiple, spidery legs.
Scientists suspect the fake spiders serve as decoys, part of a defense mechanism meant to confuse or distract predators. “It seems like a really well evolved and very specialized behavior,” said Phil Torres, who described the find in a blog entry written for Rainforest Expeditions. Torres, a biologist and science educator, divides his time between Southern California and Peru, where he’s involved in research and education projects.
“Considering that spiders can already make really impressive geometric designs with their webs, it’s no surprise that they can take that leap to make an impressive design with debris and other things,” he said.
In September, Torres was leading visitors into a floodplain surrounding Peru’s Tambopata Research Center, located near the western edge of the Amazon. From a distance, they saw what resembled a smallish, dead spider in a web. It looked kind of flaky, like the fungus-covered corpse of an arthropod.
But then the flaky spider started moving.
A closer looked revealed the illusion. Above the 1-inch-long decoy sat a much smaller spider. Striped, and less than a quarter-inch long, the spider was shaking the web. It was unlike anything Torres had ever seen. “It blew my mind,” he said.
So Torres got in touch with arachnologist Linda Rayor Cornell University who confirmed the find was unusual. “The odds are that this [species] is unidentified,” she said, “and even if it has been named, that this behavior hasn’t previously been reported.” Rayor notes that while more observations are necessary to confirm a new species, decoys with legs — and the web-shaking behavior — aren’t common in known Cyclosa. “That’s really kind of cool,” she said.
Afterward, Torres returned to the trails near the research center. Only within a roughly 1-square-mile area near the floodplain did Torres find more spider-building spiders — about 25 of them. “They could be quite locally restricted,” he said. “But for all I know, there’s millions of them in the forest beyond.” The spiders’ webs were crafted around face-height, near the trail, and about the width of a stretched-out hand. Some of the decoys placed in the webs looked rather realistic. Others resembled something more like a cartoon octopus.
“I have never seen a structure just like this,” said William Eberhard, an entomologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and University of Costa Rica who studies spiders and web-building.
Photo: Phil Torres.
Though Cyclosa are known for building decoys, most of the described spiders’ constructions are clumpy, made out of multiple little balls built from egg sacs, debris or prey, rather than something resembling an actual spider. “Known Cyclosa don’t have that spider-with-leg looking thing, which is why we think it’s a new species,” Torres said.
But without a permit to collect any organisms, anatomical confirmation of the new species is on hold. Torres is returning to the site in January, and will be able to collect some spiders then. Eberhard notes that identifying a new species based on the decoy-building behavior alone is probably not possible. “Species are distinguished on the basis of the structure of the male and female genitalia,” he said. “To a lesser extent, on the overall abdomen shape.”
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Post by emerald on Oct 19, 2018 7:46:58 GMT -5
“He Actually Believes He Is Khalid”: The Amazing 30-Year Odyssey of a Counterfeit Saudi Prince “My name is Khalid,” he tells me, and I want to believe him. After all, he has traveled the world as royalty—the son of the king of Saudi Arabia, no less. Leading international investors know him as His Royal Highness Khalid bin al-Saud. He moved in an entourage of Rolls-Royces and Ferraris, his every whim tended to by uniformed housekeepers and armed bodyguards. A suave British-born C.E.O. handled his business affairs, and a well-connected international banker marketed his investment deals to a select few, leaving him to live a life of astonishing excess. Ever since he was a boy, he had been pitted against his royal brothers in an expensive game—to see who could “outdo the other one” in spending, he liked to say. Khalid was surely winning. He was in negotiations to purchase 30 percent of the famed Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach for $440 million, and he was selling early access to what promised to be the biggest I.P.O. in history: the initial public offering of Aramco, the Saudi oil giant. Until last June, when the Saudi government shelved the plan, the I.P.O. was expected to be worth more than $2 trillion. www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/10/he-actually-believes-he-is-khalid-the-odyssey-of-a-counterfeit-saudi-prince |
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Post by emerald on May 13, 2019 4:49:38 GMT -5
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