"Christopher R. Maden" wrote:
> This isn't quite accurate. The human brain doesn't process things by
> specific look-ups, but by more generic "shapes". I did some
> computer-vision recognition work in college, and it turns out that the
> Gaussian "shock" function of an outline[*] tends to uniquely identify an
> object regardless of light conditions and orientation. This is why you can
> recognize your friend's face even if he's turned at a slightly different
> angle to you than he was when you first met him.
Well, wouldn't there be a huge look-up table where each entry of the
table is some "Gaussian shock function" (a term that I am not familiar
with) for its bouma?
-- Ben Haskell