Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

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Post by gotocake » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 2:54 AM UTC

Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye
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Re: Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

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Post by faitswulff » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:47 PM UTC

I was really hoping this would be a paper describing how to "enhance" the image a la the CSI TV show[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0

Re: Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

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Post by noir_lord » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 11:07 PM UTC

faitswulff wrote: post #2

I was really hoping this would be a paper describing how to "enhance" the image a la the CSI TV show[0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0

My favourite parody of csi style enhance.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo

Re: Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

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Post by vichu » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 11:19 PM UTC

I remember seeing this in the Wild Wild West[0] movie from 1999. It's curious seeing the history behind it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LFHZDXhUI8

Re: Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

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Post by yuchi » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 11:37 PM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #3

faitswulff wrote: post #2

I was really hoping this would be a paper describing how to "enhance" the image a la the CSI TV show[0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0

My favourite parody of csi style enhance. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo

That's a Blade Runner parody!

Re: Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

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Post by wool_gather » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 11:38 PM UTC

Also used as a plot device in one of the amazing Lord Darcy stories, by Randall Garrett. A detective and his Watson in a medieval setting where magic is not particularly magical, but actually forensic science. They obtain a very clear image of the murderer from the victim using a spell, but it doesn't resemble any of the possible perpetrators.

Re: Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

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Post by bookofjoe » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 11:39 PM UTC

I recall many years ago reading an article about how, with sufficiently powerful computers, it would be possible to reconstruct what a person in a photograph is looking at by enhancing the pinpoints of light reflected off their pupils.

Re: Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

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Post by mhb » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 12:42 AM UTC

Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Re: Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

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Post by King-Aaron » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 2:43 AM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #3

faitswulff wrote: post #2

I was really hoping this would be a paper describing how to "enhance" the image a la the CSI TV show[0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0

My favourite parody of csi style enhance. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo

That's fantastic.

I must say though, this whole discussion makes me think of Will Smith here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw5kRvCZ_Ng

Re: Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

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Post by romanticComedy » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 3:53 AM UTC

vichu wrote: post #4

I remember seeing this in the Wild Wild West[0] movie from 1999. It's curious seeing the history behind it. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LFHZDXhUI8

Seriously though, doesn't it bother you that the primary gag is to repeat the same five words at each beat in the rhythm of that scene? It's such a lowest common denominator bit. This is sort of an odd crux to juxtapose, as a premise of art immitating life.

On the one hand, you have a plot device delivering some interesting sci-fi exposition to move the story forward, and on the other hand, you've got this squeamish every man wringing his hands from the vantage point of some supposed moral high ground, each ignoring the other, distracted by their own fixation.

Really makes you think.