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[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 eyewitness! Or best I guess, if you're a criminal.

*Edit, wrong word.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day 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

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Stop, you're making me bitter about the Sims lol

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would recognize the second guy from the sketch.

[–] dontsayaword@piefed.social 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I remember the story right, the sketch did help them catch him

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can I get robbed by the movie guy, please?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 2 days ago

"What happened to you?!"

"I got mugged... It was awesome!"

[–] palmtrees2309@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Ranvir singh om Lemmy. Not on my bingo.