203: Re-Entry Is a Doozy

[thefourthvine]

Best Beloved recently pointed out to me that it had been approximately seventeen years since I had recommended anything, which had of course triggered the inevitable thing where I am reluctant to write up a recommendations post because it's been so long since I've done one. You all know how this goes. She suggested I ease myself into it with vids.

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[china_shop]

Neal: Did I mention that I am exceptionally pretty?
Elizabeth: You didn't need to. I have eyes.

HEEEE! Your dialogue break-down of Let's Misbehave is to die for, just so you know. Also, I'm probably the only person alive who hasn't seen The Tenth Doctor Musical yet, so I'm going to assume the rec is directed at me personally. ;-)

[thefourthvine]

It turns out that - tragically - there were SEVERAL people who hadn't seen the Tenth Doctor Musical. That is sad, and also wrong, and I am just glad I rec'd it before the universe fell out of alignment or something.

[pocketmouse]

Ahahahaha it's like all fanart is a magic eye picture to you, isn't it?

[thefourthvine]

Only some fanart! Some of it I totally get, and I am always so so in love with the stuff I do.

But, yeah, some of it, BB is there patiently pointing out things and I'm just saying, "Wow. I - I didn't know that was there!" and "Seriously? There's come in this picture?"

(And some of it I'm like OH GOD UNCANNY VALLEY LOOK AWAY. Some photoshopped stuff just looks so scary-wrong-bad to me.)

[hannahrorlove]

I'm sorry, but the cake is a lie.

[thefourthvine]

I'm not even angry! I'm being so sincere right now.

[mecurtin]

I can't believe you brought me in here to look at a penis you didn't even know was there.

This should be your new journal name, just sayin'.

Is it all line drawings? Or fanart specifically? Not I want to do SCIENCE on you!

[thefourthvine]

This should be your new journal name, just sayin'.

You might be right about that.

Is it all line drawings? Or fanart specifically? Not I want to do SCIENCE on you!It's - it's hard to explain. It's a style of drawing, and I struggle with it as much in non-fanart as in fanart. It's worst in very detailed, very busy, very line-filled drawings, and worst of all if it's all lines in one color. (So, like, charcoal, sepia, pencil, etc.) I'm just lost; the artist is apparently relying on her audience having an ability I don't have, something that helps people make sense of that kind of jumble

[mecurtin]

*steeples fingers* Fascinating.

It sounds as though you have a low-quality Face Recognition Module, and it breaks down (almost) completely under unnatural conditions (e.g. line drawings).

What's scientifically interesting is that you *do* see the tiger. (what picture is this? Is it online?)

My hypothesis is that the normal human Face Recognition Module is so advanced that it doesn't need many pixels of input to get a result. You may be evaluating faces as though they are normal patterns.

So if the picture has 100K of data that are part of the tiger, and 20K that are faces, you find the tiger 5 times easier to discern than the faces. The standard human FRM is perhaps 10 times better than that for normal patterns, so to neurotypical person looking at the picture sees the faces twice as well (parses the pattern twice as easily) as the tiger.

... now I want to make your blood relatives look at pictures, too. I get more Agatha Heterodyne-y by the day.

[paxluvfelicitas]

Well, yeah. thefourthvine has talked a lot about having difficulty watching television because of an inability to tell the people in the shows apart after they've changed clothes. Anecdotally, that definitely suggests some degree of prosopagnosia. Since major brain damage to the fusiform gyrus in childhood is the kind of thing that can come up in a blog, I'm assuming it's either associated with some other learning disorder or she's one of the ~2% of the pop that won the genetic lottery there.

(Hi TFV! I promise I'm not trying to be creepy; I find your brain interesting both for the witty writing AND the unusual neurological function! But, you know, if you care to tell me whether you find it unusually difficult to guess ages, or whether any of these photos seem strange, you'd make my day!)

[odditycollector]

definitely the sort of creature you want to a) pat on the head and b) keep in a cage.
Which is probably another 25, 30% right there.

[thefourthvine]

I am trying to avoid those ones, though. I have a lifetime and per fandom limit on kept-in-a-cage stories. I didn't realize how limiting that would be when I signed the contract!