Inside the Mind of a Caricaturist
he “Caricature Generator” is a computer program that takes an image of a person’s face, finds its differences as compared to the “average” male face, and then exaggerates them in a novel rendering of the original portrait. Each face is broken up into 37 lines and 169 points—the differences come when the subject’s points don’t match the average. If the subject had a particularly snubbed nose, for example, then it would be caught by the program and then blown up by a factor of at least one. Cognitive psychologist Susan Brennan created it in 1982 while at MIT’s Media Lab, using it to analyze how well
