Cylindrical self-portrait

More than ten years ago, my friend Josh White invited me to a warehouse hipster party in Emeryville, and amazingly, the hipsters had a Cyberscanner! (Wow, that name sounds dated). It was a 3D laser scanner, and as a party favor, they'd scan your head. Best party favor I've ever gotten, hands down.

They gave me a 3D model and this texture to go with it.

My major regret is that I had facial hair. If I was thinking I would have shaved all of the hair of off my head right then and there. It would have grown back, and I would have had a crisp 3D version of myself at age 25 or so. As it is, the face-fuzz wound up making the scan really noisy, and the mesh has some bad rough areas. Too bad.

In any case, here's the cylindrically projected texture map of my head in a younger day. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man!


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It's always surprising how small a face is compared to the rest of the head (assuming that I'm a more or less normal example, here).

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