a study — five angles of a face, wrapped onto one shared head
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A study for a capture station built for a live performance. Someone steps up, gives a name, and turns their head slowly while the glass takes them from five angles.
Progress is the rays. One for each angle, dark until it is taken, so the sunburst completes as the glass finishes learning. A bar filling would have carried the same information and none of the meaning.
The head below is not a model of you. It is the same 468-vertex shape for everybody, and it never changes. What changes is the texture wrapped onto it — and that alone is enough to read as a particular person.
That is the whole bet the project rests on. Recognition lives in skin, brows, the specific arrangement of features; head shape carries far less than intuition suggests. The study exists to let you watch one generic head become someone, without its geometry moving at all.
Expression is procedural — five deformations of named landmark groups, each falling off smoothly into the surrounding surface. It is not a recording of your face moving. It is the shared head, doing what you ask.
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