MooneyFaces | Mooney faces are monochrome images

MooneyFaces is a Python library. MooneyFaces has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However MooneyFaces build file is not available. You can download it from GitHub.

Mooney faces are monochrome images of faces, heavily shadowed. They were introduced by Craig Mooney. Mooney’s original paper is unclear on the construction of the faces used as stimuli: he states "The closure items were drawings of the heads and faces of miscellaneous people. They presented, in solid blacks and whites, only the salient shadows or high-lights, as revealed in strongly lighted photographs." (Mooney, 1957).  . This python program generates Mooney style faces, using OpenCV and a fairly simple algorithm. It was written to investigate the effect of various parameters upon perception, including the presence or absence of a border, the highlight/shadow colour, and motion. The software was inspired by (and mostly written at) Dagstuhl, in seminar 15192 "The Message in the Shadow: Noise or Knowledge?" [A video of the software in action can be found on youtube here: [A summary of the algorithm follows: set threshold t to mid-grey (126,126,126). C. M. Mooney. Age in the development of closure ability in children. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 11:219–226 1957 [].