ABSTRACT
In 1982 Susan Brennan submitted a thesis for the Master of Science in Visual Studies at MIT, in which she described Caricature Generator, a computer program that creates caricatures (Brennan, 1982). An amateur caricaturist herself (e.g. Fig. 3.1), she decided to automate the process she used to create a caricature, which was to picture the whole face all at once without analysing any one part of it and then watch it amplify itself. Unfortunately, such a holistic, parallel exaggeration of the entire face is disrupted by the serial process of drawing, which distracts the artist from the whole. The goal of the Caricature Generator was to free caricaturing from this seriality constraint and the motor skills required.
