Gallery: Insane Face Projections That Turn You Into a Leopard or Robot

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    Japanese producer and director Nobumichi Asai uses 3-D projection mapping to blast visuals onto human faces.
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    Asai says that for this demo, he upped his toolkit from one computer to five, so that he can use one for sensing light and evenness of the skin, two for rendering the projections, one for controlling the projections, and one for background music. Meow.
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    It's an interesting look at where makeup could head in years to come.
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    And he does it all within a few minutes---no painstaking prep time required.
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    Cool....and kinda freaky.
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