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[Naturegirl1999]

Thanks for the picture, it doesn’t look like wax to me, had you not said it was in a wax museum, I wouldn’t have known it to be wax

[wierd]

That particular museum has built a name and reputation around the photo-realism of their replicas.

The wax is translucent, and when mixed with the correct opaque pigments, it can give a surprisingly lifelike skin appearance. Another that can give a surprisingly lifelike skin is vinyl, amusingly.

There are a few artists that use that medium, Duane Hanson is one.
https://whitney.org/collection/works/2160

I am not certain, but I think Ron Mueck's work is also in vinyl.

[Naturegirl1999]

If vinyl and wax work well as skin lookalikes, why aren’t they used on the robots?

[wierd]

Vinyl bends, rather than stretches, at the thicknesses needed to make the refractive properties right.

Wax is brittle. It does not flex. It will crack and break.


Edit--

My bad, Ron uses SILICONE, not vinyl.  So that's another material. Silicone might work with the right additives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYX_jV-lAfk

[Arx]

Personally, I found them all to be in the uncanny valley, because they register as artificial to me. (Then again, I apparently spend entirely too much time subconsciously examining people's face and bone structure. Probably because I used to sculpt as a hobby.) Real humans have all kinds of quirks about their structure that is intricate and unique.

"Can be discerned as edited" is not the same thing as "uncanny". I can also tell they're all edited, it's a question of whether it instantly rings an internal alarm as somehow wrong or not.

It'd be neat to see something done with maybe a sort of gel under a silicone layer, with a simulated waxy cuticle over the top to try and hit the right reflections. May well have been done, I haven't bothered to check.

[Dunamisdeos]

My day at work today is going to fucking suck

We got here, we open the front door, and are greeted with the smell of mildew and rotten eggs. Turns out they cleaned the carpets last night unannounced (even the GM of the place wasn't told they were coming) and did such a great job that it smells like mild sewage. Carpets are wet, chairs are wet, and it's all juuuuuust not bad enough that I can't justify sending people home. It's just bad enough to be noticeable.

Also it's humid in here like someone is trying to grow something tropical.

[scriver]

Came across this today and thought of this thread:


edit: omagaw that picture ended up a bit wider than I thought it was

[Naturegirl1999]

Interesting, both look like humans though, which one is the wax one?

[JoshuaFH]

Interesting, both look like humans though, which one is the wax one?

Well, from the fact that there's a hand actively sculpting the left one, I'ma say that's the fake. Don't worry, I had to stare at it for a second too; Mark is just so mortified in the right picture that his humanity is drained out.

[Eric Blank]

Trying to get into urgent care but I lost my proof of insurance, now I have to harass my boss on a Sunday bc the insurance agency doesn't have customer service on the weekends. And I can't stop coughing up green and brown shit from my lungs

[Arx]

Without the cue of the brush I'd probably struggle if I didn't know what Zuckerberg looked like in the past, and looks like now.

[Reelya]

Trying to get into urgent care but I lost my proof of insurance, now I have to harass my boss on a Sunday bc the insurance agency doesn't have customer service on the weekends. And I can't stop coughing up green and brown shit from my lungs

Man that's insane. I feel for you. Here it would be "treatment now, proof later". And the treatment would be free. I can't really fathom the idea of a place where basic treatment isn't a universal right.

EDIT: In Michael Moore's documentary 'Sicko' he has an example from the UK. In NHS hospitals they have a 'cashier's window'. But ... you don't pay there. You show receipts from public transport and they pay you back for having to travel to the hospital and back. Which is all about fairness: the principle is that you shouldn't have to pay more for the service because they didn't build the hospital close to where you live.

Honestly, the entire basic of the American medical system scares the crap out of me. Not least because our right-wing politicians look on your healthcare "model" (loosely speaking) with glee and want to implement that here. The only saving grace is that the US model is such an obvious train-wreck of a system that they can't get any political traction to push it through.

[Iduno]

Interesting, both look like humans though, which one is the wax one?

The one on the right appears to be made of yellowish wax. Someone is painting the one on the left, so I assume that's the one that is actually wax.

[scriver]

We have a samespirited practice here were you can show your healthcare summons paper and receive free bus rides. Or at least we do here in my landsthing. It's probably fairly common though, my landsthing is fairly centrist.

[hector13]

I pay hundreds of dollars a month for the right to pay $13k toward healthcare I really don't want to use, mostly because I'd prefer to have money to live than get healthcare to hurt less.