Mapping Virtual Emotions: 3D-surface capturing of animated facial expressions in animals and humans

在我目前对意识和做梦的大脑的研究的基础上，我试图开发一种新的艺术作品来揭示人类特有的情感(如笑、哭等)。随着新技术的使用，特别是数字扫描设备和特效动画软件。该提议是使用3D高分辨率激光扫描仪来捕捉动物的面部(与自然历史博物馆合作)，并使用这些面部的数据，动画，然后将它们与人类情感面部表情结合起来。在这样做的过程中，人们希望通过批判性的实验来直观地看到进化选择和适应了什么。

Building upon my current research into consciousness and the dreaming brain, I seek to develop a new artwork to reveal aspects of characteristic human emotions (i.e. laughing, crying etc.) with the use of new technology in particular digital scanning devices and special effects animation software. The proposal is to use a 3D high-resolution laser scanner to capture animal faces (in association with the Natural History Museum) and using the data of these faces, animate and then combine them with human emotional facial expressions. In doing so it is hoped to visualise through critical experimentation what evolution has selected and accommodated.