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Skulls Gain Virtual Faces
rw2 writes "Totally cool, The guys at Max Planck Institute for Computer Science have developed a way to reconstruct a persons appearence when a skull is found. When police find a skull and want to know what its owner looked like, they generally use artists who reconstruct the face by building up layers of clay over the skull."
I can't wait to see what that skeleton that hangs in the biology class lab looked like when it was alive!
Does everything include nothing?
Why stop at monkeys? Do you know how many gibbons get murdered and decapitated every day, only to be identified as "Gibbon" and put on display in museums until someone can make a positive identification? If we could talk these lower primates into visiting their dentist more often, we would be able to more accurately identify these poor John Gibbon Does.
You want to ask a real question next?
This can not be the case. This is getting rediculous.
Were going to have to start diseminating slashdot stories on a staggered Timezone based schedule.
The reconstruction scenes were silly!
Do you think Nefertiti and Akenaten sat silently next to each other, slowly turning at regular intervals to give each other shifty eyed knowing glances?
And did you see that one priest dude with the leapord skin shawl and the GIGANTANORMOUS AFRO! The Afro was bigger than him! He was the pimpinest ancient egyptian I ever did see.
And I liked that the whole conclusion that they had found nefertiti was based on "If its not Nefertiti, who else could it be?" Gee I dunno, maybe one of the other BAJILLION people who lived in egypt?
Anyways. I cant stay mad at TV. I just wish they'd stick to CGI dinosaurs.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
This is not new. Doesn't anybody watch CSI? With the aid of computer technology they are able to zoom in on images taken from blurry security cameras to be able to tell if there is a carpet fiber on the jacket of the person in the very same picture! I'm sure they're able to fully rebuild a complete person from just the skeletal structure, muscles and all. They can probably interpolate from marks on the skeleton and thanks to that guy that knows everything he could probably help out b/c chances are he knew the guy. TV wouldn't lie to me!! Would it...?? *cowers in the corner*
1. Glue on pencil erasers to set the skin thickness
2. Cover with modeling clay to make the features using the erasers as a guide.
3. ???
You know the rest.
4. Profit ?
'Same speed C but faster'
...we will finally be able to see what Calista Flockhart REALLY looks like?
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Actually in McBride's case, I'm waiting for them to find a way to reconstruct what's inside his skull, not outside. That may fall outside the prevue of real science, however.
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
I liked the look of the actress who played the doomed queen [...] Much more convincing than Yul Brenner, and a darn sight better looking.
Well, unless Nefertiti was a drag queen, it is perhaps not all that surprising that Yul Brynner didn't make a convincing Nefertiti.
You have somehow managed to make references to Soviet Russia, the word "base", and SCO as well as twist your sentence structure without anyone cracking any of the standard jokes. Am I on the right Slashdot? ;)