Paul with mirrorball

Paul Debevec, who heads up ICT's Graphics Lab, holds a mirrorball inside the Light Stage X dome. Light Stage is designed to create scans of people's faces far beyond what any other system can do, Debevec explained. It generates skin reflective properties that make the result look extremely realistic, and 16,000 pixels of detail from ear to ear. Though highly prized in Hollywood, the system can also be used to generate faces for virtual humans for military therapy projects.