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Nastybutler@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I still don’t understand why police sketch artists are a thing when back in the mid 2000’s I made a golfer in Tiger Woods 2005 that looked just like me. The GameFace II software in that game was so easy to make a face that looked like whatever you wanted. Best face manipulation software I’ve seen before or since.
So why don’t police just have that game around to have witnesses make a model of whoever they saw?
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
To my knowledge, it’s rather an interviewing skill than a drawing skill. The victim might not be able to name details, such as narrow, small eyes when they recount it themselves (nor if you gave them all of the design freedom of a 3D modeling software), but if you specifically ask them whether the eyes were big or small, wide or narrow, then they can often give an answer to that, with some amount of uncertainty. Gauging that uncertainty is also part of the interviewing skill.
I also imagine a sketch where the uncertain details are left out is more helpful for actually finding the person than a highly detailed model where everything has to be modeled realistically, no matter how unsure you feel about it.
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s fair. However I’d like to see a study where subjects were shown a 5 second clip of a crime and half were sent to a police sketch artist, and the other half given that Tiger Woods game and see who comes up with a better depiction
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
I’m somewhat blind to faces, and I’ve always imagined how hard a situation like that would be with someone like me. I could not describe the face of a person I saw at glance, no matter what details you asked, and if I had to recognize someone they caught or showed me a photo of, I couldn’t. Even if you gave me a photo of someone and asked me to pick them out of bunch of people, I likely wouldn’t be able to. Facial blindness makes you the worst possible bystader! Or best I guess, if you’re a criminal.