Over a decade ago, Davis made a radical break from the mainstream stage, in order to focus on the qualities that most moved her in dance: the body's rich and largely untapped capacity for subtle nuances of expression.
It is almost entirely comprehensible from the images alone and from the nuances of expression on the actors' faces".All the Way", which stars Karen Mok (above), was co-produced in China by Peter Loehr, an American who speaks fluent Mandarin and set up his own production unit there, Imar Film, which has now had four hits in a row, starting in 1998 with the irresistibly entitled "Spicy Love Soup".
This enables the α55 and α33 to capture split-second action or fleeting nuances of expression with portrait subjects.
I know her face so well — every curve of it, every nuance of expression.
"The system can capture every subtle nuance of expression down to the pixel," Dr. Bregler said, "and every wrinkle.
In "Rise," the actor Andy Serkis, who plays the chimp protagonist Caesar, wears a lightweight helmet with a video camera mounted directly in front of his face to record every nuance of expression, outdoors as well as indoors.
So not only does the body and face move like the source video, but every little nuance of expression is captured and reproduced using the target person's own expressions!
Data so often thought of in subjective terms (the quality of light or nuance of expression is not easily quantified) was organized into a system and produced a synthetic painting of considerable merit, and probably, now that it has done it once, could do so a dozen more times with relative ease.
Face Opera alluded to the extent to which ASL relies upon facial expression and implied that attention to the nuances of facial expression can constitute hearing.
The nuances of human expression, verbal and otherwise, are something that A.I. scientists have yet to teach a machine how to decode.
In other words, even though he believes it's "quite likely" that strong artificial intelligences will exist at some point, the movie asks you to "just take a leap of faith" and accept it, and also accept that we'll be able to build robots that can replicate the nuances of human expression.
