on screen beauty.
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When you see skin, you’re not really seeing the skin so much as the blood underneath. Skin is highly transparent, which is why you see bruises so clearly. More youthful skin is viewed (of course) as more beautiful, and youthful skin is characterized by characteristic high contrast between the oxygenated (red, rosy, fleshy) parts, and the deoxygenated regions (namely veins).
The Human Factory actually invented and owns VINO OPTICS technology, which is designed to enhance the visibility of oxygenation differences, and in fact also makes skin look more beautiful, alive, and youthful. We also possess technology that blocks our ability to see these oxygenation differences, and skin thereby becomes dead, gross, and zombie-like.
We have argued in earlier research (and especially see Chapter 1 of VISION rEVOLUTION) that our red-green color vision dimension (which is our third dimension, above and beyond the two dimensions that rabbits, dogs, and other mammals possess) in fact evolved for (and is optimized for) sensing oxygenation modulations under the skin, so that we can see color emotions on bare skin, like blushes and blanches. It also gives a general ability to sense health and state.
To look beautiful and alive and young requires seeing just the right spectral characteristics on skin.
One of the troubles with movies is that, although it is showing lots of colors, the cameras lose the oxygenation signal right from the start because camera filters cannot capture the oxygenation signal our peculiar retinal cones evolved to sense.
However, in the age of CGI it is now possible to give characters (either CGI characters, or add to real actors) the spectral look we see in real life, and which gives skin its vitality, beauty, and oomph. Movies are missing the color dimension that evocatively matters most, but we can add it.
Sexy characters become sexier. Old become older. Zombies can become zombier!
(A related case is getting the spectral characteristics of emotional expressions done more correctly, and thus making the actors much more expressive, or even exaggerating it.)
The Human Factory actually invented and owns VINO OPTICS technology, which is designed to enhance the visibility of oxygenation differences, and in fact also makes skin look more beautiful, alive, and youthful. We also possess technology that blocks our ability to see these oxygenation differences, and skin thereby becomes dead, gross, and zombie-like.
We have argued in earlier research (and especially see Chapter 1 of VISION rEVOLUTION) that our red-green color vision dimension (which is our third dimension, above and beyond the two dimensions that rabbits, dogs, and other mammals possess) in fact evolved for (and is optimized for) sensing oxygenation modulations under the skin, so that we can see color emotions on bare skin, like blushes and blanches. It also gives a general ability to sense health and state.
To look beautiful and alive and young requires seeing just the right spectral characteristics on skin.
One of the troubles with movies is that, although it is showing lots of colors, the cameras lose the oxygenation signal right from the start because camera filters cannot capture the oxygenation signal our peculiar retinal cones evolved to sense.
However, in the age of CGI it is now possible to give characters (either CGI characters, or add to real actors) the spectral look we see in real life, and which gives skin its vitality, beauty, and oomph. Movies are missing the color dimension that evocatively matters most, but we can add it.
Sexy characters become sexier. Old become older. Zombies can become zombier!
(A related case is getting the spectral characteristics of emotional expressions done more correctly, and thus making the actors much more expressive, or even exaggerating it.)